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ALUMNAE NEWS

Wallace E. Rollins

NOVEMBER, 1956

THE SWEET BRIAR ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

1956-1958

Officers

President

Mrs. Leonard M. Horton

(Gladys Wester, '30g)

619 Prospect St., Maplewood, N. J.

First Vice-President

Mrs. Ralph Peters

(Phoebe Rowe, '31g)

249 Hollywood Avenue, Rochester, N. Y.

Second Vice-President

Miss Ella-Prince Trimmer, '56g

300 Oak Lane, Richmond, Va.

Executive Secretary and Treasurer

Mrs. Ernest M. Wood, Jr.

(Elizabeth Bond, '34g)

Sweet Briar, Va.

Alumna Member, Board of Directors

Mrs. W. L. Lyons Brown

(Sara Shallenberger, '32g)

Ashbourne, Harrods Creek, Ky.

Alumnae Members, Board of Overseers

Mrs. William T. Hodges

(Nan Powell, 'lOg)

209 Indian Springs Road, Williamsburg, Va.

Mrs. Fred C. Andersen

(Katherine Blount, '26g)

Bayport, Minn.

Mrs. James N. Frazer

(Rebecca Young, '35g)

565 West Wesley Road, N.W., Atlanta, Ga.

Mrs. Ralph A. Rotnem

(Alma Martin, '36g)

130 Stockton Street, Princeton, N. J.

Chairman of the Alumnae Fund

Mrs. Robert M. Burton

(Nancy Dowd, '46g)

140 Oak Street, Glendale, Ohio

Members of the Executive Board

Mrs. Clarence B. Rogers

(Mary Clark, '13)
205 Beverly Road, N.E., Atlanta, Ga.

Mrs. William S. Iliff, Jr.

(Dorothy Keller, '26g)

3488 Venice Street, Arlington 7, Va.

Mrs. W. Wright Bryan

(Ellen Newell, '26)
16520 Woodland Road, Cleveland 20, Ohio

Mrs. Carlos Berguido, Jr.

(Marion Jayne, '28g)
135 Rose Lane, Haverford, Pa.

Mrs. John B. Morlidge, Jr.
(Virginia Van Winkle, '28g)

318 Summit Lane
Ft. Mitchell, Covington, Ky.

Mrs. John B. Orgain, Jr.

(Norvell Royer, '30g)

5505 Matoaka Road, Richmond, Va.

Mrs. John S. Smith

(Ruth Hasson, '30g)

204 Lingrove Place, Pittsburgh 8, Pa.

Mrs. William S. Sandifer, Jr.

(Agnes Cleveland, '31g)

Box 2277, Spartanburg, S. C.

Mrs. Kenneth B. Harding

(Elizabeth Myers, '35g)

Sturges Commons, Westport, Conn.

Mrs. H. Clay Evans Johnson

(Betty Smartt, '38g)

Fleetwood Drive, Lookout Mountain, Tenn.

Mrs. Bernard L. Reams

(Ann Morrison, '42g)

7 North Princeton Circle, Lynchburg, Va.

Mrs. Robert S. Bush
(Sarah Louise Adams, '43g)
3809 Caruth, Dallas, Texas

Miss Marguerite Hume, '43g
2218 Village Drive, Louisville 5, Ky.

Mrs. J. R. Haverty

(Margaret Munnerlyn, '47g)

1863 Meredith Drive, N.W., Atlanta, Ga.

Mrs. Willmm M. Edgerley

(Barbara Easier, '51g)

Princeton, Illinois

Miss Mary Lee McGinnis, '54g
2240 Jefferson Avenue, Memphis, Tenn.

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November, 1956

ALUMNAE NEWS

Elizabeth Bond Wood, '34g

Editors Judith Feild Vogelback

Briar Patches

Contents

Sweet Briar opened the 5 1st aca-

demic session with 52 3 students from

35 states, the District of Columbia and

Briar Patches

7 foreign countries. Virginia leads

with 81 followed by New York 61,

New Jersey 35, Pennsylvania 34 and

Sweet Briar's Resident Saint

Georgia 30.

* * * *

A Look at the Department of Religion

"There's never been anything like

The History of the History

it," say the eighty students who are

the first residents of the William

Bland Dew Dormitory. There really

Sweet Briar Roundup Time for the

ne\er has been anything like the hustle

Development Program

and bustle of getting it ready just in

time for the opening of college.

Come and see a modern college

Harriet Shaw McCurdy

dormitory and you'll think you're

dreaming.

* * * *

Chapel Memorial Fund

Sweet Briar opened for the first time

We Point with Pride

in 30 years without Betty Lyon, the

beloved head waitress in Big Refec-

tory. Betty has been ill all summer in

With the Clubs

the University of 'Virginia hospital but

has high hopes of returning soon to

be "Mrs. Brown's right hand." Her

Operation Tulip Bulb

address is Box -jO, Arrington, 'Vir-

ginia. She enjoys cards and messages

from "her girls. '

HuiHLIGHTS of THE COUNCIL

* * * *

The Alumnae Fund

Tne Cover

Class Notes

The picture on the cover of the

magazine is one taken several years
igo of Dr. Wallace E. Rollins, the

Member of the American Alumni Council

hrst resident chaplain of the college.

Volume XXVI Number 1

who is now affectionately regarded as
"Sweet Briars Resident Saint. "

Issued six times yearly: November (2), February, March, May, June,
Sweet Briar College. Entered as second class matter November 30,

1931, at the Postoffice at Sweet Briar, Virginia.

108794

Sweet Briar's

Resident

Saint

ON Commencement Day last June 4 President Pannell
made the stirring announcement to the college com-
munit)' that the Kresge Foundation had authorized a grant
of $50,000 to Sweet Briar College to establish an endowed
chair of religion provided the college could raise an addi-
tional $100,000. This chair was to be named in honor of
Sweet Briar's first chaplain and professor of religion. Dr.
Wallace E. Rollins. Dr. Rollins rose as the faculty and
students applauded with feeling, but the alumnae especially
were moved by this tribute to him whom they had known
over most of the years since the founding of the college
as chaplain, teacher, friend and adviser. It was fitting that
Dr. Rollins should be honored in this way, and it was emi-
nently fitting that any chair of religion at Sweet Briar
should be associated with his name, which has been closely
identified with the Department of Religion from 1908 until
the present time.

A native of western North Carolina, Wallace Rollins
grew up in a small town near Asheville. The woods and
the mountains, with their wild life, were very much a part
of his early environment. At the age of four he had a pony
on which he used to follow his father's big horse, and there
was always a favorite dog and once a pet bear cub which
his father had found deserted in the woods.

In those days of few schools and poor transportation,
the young Wallace spent much time at various boarding
schools. One of them was a military school where, among
other things, he remembers especially a colored man named
Abel who came twice a week to sell the boys home-made
ice cream and brown sugar pies "in two sizes"! At one
period, in order to attend school in Raleigh, he lived with
an uncle who was superintendent of an institution for the
deaf, dumb, and blind. He still recalls his privilege of
being invited to the parties of both the deaf and the blind
children. At another time he started out from his boarding
school to take a walk with an Indian boy much older than
himself, and his friend suggested that they walk to Wal-
lace's home, fourteen miles away. They started on a run,
but they soon slowed down; Wallace was appalled when
they came to a flooded stream after it was pitch dark. On
the young Indian's shoulders he was carried across, and
about midnight the two reached their destination almost
exhausted. Two crestfallen lads were taken back to the
school the next morning on horseback, and the search
parties were called in. A few weeks later Wallace found
out that the school officials had been planning to award
him the medal for best deportment — until his escapade!

Before going off to college, Wallace spent some time
learning the banking business, and he became teller of the
First National Bank of Asheville at the age of seventeen.
His sound business sense and skill with figures have made

him in recent years an informal income tax consultant for
many a puzzled Sweet Briarite.

In 1892 Wallace Rollins received his A.B. degree from
the University of North Carolina, and in 1895 his B.D.
degree from the Divinity School of Yale University. He
then had eleven years of pastoral experience as Rector of
the Episcopal Church, first in Covington, Virginia, and then
in Christiansburg, 'Virginia. (Both parishes were under
Bishop Alfred Magill Randolph, the first president of
Sweet Briar's Board of Directors, for whom Randolph Hall
was named.)

When Dr. Rollins first came to Sweet Briar in 1908,
the student body was small enough so that he could know
e\ery student well and be a counsellor and friend to each.
The warmth of the relationship is still a cherished reality
to many early alumnae. One, for example, happened to
hear of the proposed Wallace E. Rollins Professorship of
Religion before most other alumnae had learned of it and
immediately sent a generous check "as a token of my affec-
tion for Dr. Rollins and my appreciation of his life and
influence and devotion to our Lord" — and later she wrote;
"Those who contribute to the Fund are not the ones to be
thanked. Their gifts are but a token of their gratitude for
the one who has given them so much of eternal worth."

In February, 1913, Dr. Rollins went to Alexandria to
become Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the Protestant
Episcopal Theological Seminary in 'Virginia, where he later
served as Dean. He was twice honored with the degree of
Doctor of Divinity, bestowed upon him by the '"Virginia
Seminary" in 1915 and twenty years later by the University
of North Carolina. At the Seminary, as at Sweet Briar,
Dr. Rollins' students responded to him with gratitude and
devotion. Many who knew him there are now sending gifts
for the Professorship in his honor, accompanied by such
words as these: "Sorry this check could not be larger but
I hope it will help a bit. It in no wise indicates my affec-
tion and regard for Dr. Rollins. If I had the financial
ability, my regard for him would move me to contribute
the full amount." Of the six or seven hundred present
clergymen who studied under Dr. Rollins, nearly forty have
become bishops. One of these, sending a contribution for
the Professorship Fund, has recently written: "If my dol-

Chatting together at the home of the Rollinses are the members of

the Department of Religion: Mr. William Mallard. Miss Dean

HosKEN, Dr. Rollins and Mrs. Rollins.

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lars could match my love and admiration and thanksgiving
for Wallace E. Rollins, and all that he has meant to me in
my life and in my ministry, you would not even have to call
on the Kresge Foundation."

During his twenty-seven years at the Virginia Seminary,
Dr. Rollins frequently returned to conduct services at Sweet
Briar, and this unhroken relationsiiip made it natural for
him to come back to live on the Sweet Briar campus after
his retirement from the seminary deanship in 1940. New
generations of students have thus known him for the past
sixteen years and have had some opportunity to discover
why Mrs. Pannell delights to refer to him as Sweet Briar's
"resident saint."

Ten years ago. Dr. Rollins married Miss Marion Bene-
dict, Professor of Religion, who since 1928 had been teach-
ing at Sweet Briar the same subjects that he had first taught
here. For eight years they worked together, in as much time
as could be spared from her other responsibilities, on their
book, Jesus and His Ministry, which was published by the
Seabury Press in 1954. It was an unforgettable moment of
thankfulness for Dr. Rollins when he finally held in his
hand the first copy of this book which embodied his most
precious life work.

Those who know him best speak of Dr. Rollins as the
most patient of men. He is not only patient with others,
but he has mastered the still more difficult art of being
patient with himself. And he is humble in the true sense
of the definition: "Humility is not thinking meanly of one-
self; it is not thinking of oneself at all." During the tragic
decades of his first wife's hospitalization, he learned to
draw all his joy from the joys of others, and he also learned
to suffer so deeply that others in suffering have always
turned to him for understanding and for help in finding
the sources of a strength like his.

The study and teaching of the life of Christ mean most
of all to Dr. Rollins, and the hundreds of clergymen who
had this course under him during nearly thirty years of
teaching at the Seminary often speak of it as one of the
deepest and most formative experiences of their hves. One
quality that made him a great teacher has been the combi-
nation of measureless scholarly labor with vivid but dis-
ciplined imagination that makes historical characters seem
like close friends to him — and therefore to his students.
Once for many months he read I Thessalonians in Greek
daily and pursued every possible wisp of information about
first-century Thessalonica, until he could feel that he would
recognize and understand the individual members of this
young church as he passed in imagination down the streets
of the city. Another of his great assets as teacher, admin-
istrator, and counsellor has been his ability to be forth-
right when necessary, but to stimulate without hurting.
His eye seldom lacks its characteristic twinkle, but many
times he has had to tell unwelcome truths without flinching.

Dr. Rollins' religion is as clear, as profound, and as
simple as the man himself. He is totally free from the kind
of "piousness " that some people wear on their sleeves, but
in his inner spirit the door of the sanctuary is never closed.
In his teaching, his preaching, his conduct of worship, and
his daily living, there is the unconscious glow of complete
de\otion to the Lord whose life he has so long studied.
And whenever any other person turns to him tor spiritual
help, the depths of his own religious life are quietly and
humbly opened to meet the other's need.

A Look at the
Department
of Religion

Now that Sweet Briar is to have an endowed Profes-
sorship of Religion, it is pertinent to take a look at
the Department of Religion and at the religious life of the
college. Many different religious backgrounds are repre-
sented in the student body. There are at the college this
year 240 Episcopalians, 86 Presbyterians, 47 Methodists,
41 Catholics, 17 Baptists, 16 Congregationalists, 12 Lu-
therans, 4 Unitarians, 4 Disciples of Christ, 4 members of
the Jewish faith, 2 Christian Scientists, and one or two
members of each of scattered denominations. As Mrs.
Rollins wrote in 1949 in an article for the Alumnae
News, "The typical Sweet Briar student is not in rebellion
against the religion in which she was brought up, but
neither is she content to let her childhood faith remain
undeveloped while her thought is maturing along other
lines. She wants to examine, understand, and evaluate her
religious heritage, and to bring it into relation with her
growing knowledge of science and history and philosophy.
She seeks to achieve an integrated view of life and the
universe, and a faith mature enough to support her in
whatever experiences adult life may bring. The minority
of students who do not share this religious interest never-
theless respect religious sincerity. ..."

And for most of the years since the founding of the
college. Dr. Rollins, or Mrs. Rollins, or both, have been
on hand to guide the student in her quest for religious
understanding. It was in 1908 that Dr. Rollins first came
to Sweet Briar as Chaplain and Professor of Biblical Litera-
ture. Though he left in 1913 to go to the Episcopal Theo-
logical Seminary in Alexandria, he came back often to the
campus to conduct services, and he returned to live per-
manently at Sweet Briar in 1940.

When Dr. Rollins left in 1913, the Reverend Thomas
D. Lewis succeeded him as Chaplain and Professor of
Biblical Literature. 'When Mr. Lewis resigned in 1920 to
become Rector of Ascension Church in Amherst, the resi-
dent chaplaincy was discontinued because improved trans-
portation facilities then made it feasible to depend upon
visiting ministers for the college Sunday services. These
ministers are drawn from the churches and theological
faculties of many denominations and are persons outstand-
ing in the religious leadership of this country. Informal
discussion groups with the minister are often arranged, and
once a year the Y. W. C. A. chooses one or two clergymen
to invite for several consecutive days of addresses, discus-
sions, conferences, and worship services.

Without a resident chaplain, the college needed a new

Professor of Biblical Literature, and that chair was held

from 1920 to 1930 by Miss M. Elizabeth J. Czarnomska,

whose volumes of The Authentic Literature of Israel con-

( Continued on page 25)

November. I9'i6

The History of the History

by Martha Lou Lemmnn Stohlman, "bAg

FOR the family in this picture life underwent a marked
change in June 1954. The gentleman on the left had
just retired from the department of art history and arche-
ology at Princeton University and was about to settle com-
fortably among his manuscripts on Limoges enamels when
his wife (second from right) came home from a meeting
of the executive committee of the Sweet Briar Alumnae
Association. Trying not to prejudice the issue she an-
nounced in what was hoped to be a neutral tone that the
committee had voted to underwrite the publication in 1956
of the college history, an alumnae gift for the Fiftieth Anni-
versary. An alumna had been chosen to be historian and
she was it. What did he think of the proposition? Their
daughter Suzanne (second from left) was aged four and
supervising her was incompatible with writing anything,
much less a book. Julie (right) was seven and still could
not comb her own hair. And what would happen to plans
for a family trip to Europe the following April.-'

The gentleman, whose name is Frederick Stohlman, in
two seconds proved himself a sterling husband and ex-
claimed, "Do it by all means! Fll take Su out mornings
so you can work, and we'll 50 to Europe later. The enamels
have already taken thirty years; one more won't make much
difference. "

That is how it started, and for fourteen months the
history of Sweet Briar was the dominant theme m our
household. Within two weeks we were all at Sweet Briar
House as Mrs. Pannell's guests while I surveyed material
to see if I thought I could write a history. I had been, after
all, a psychologist and it seemed a bit presumptuous to
think that I could suddenly turn historian. For several days

I perused the sizeable treasure of notes, interviews and clip-
pings already collected by a history committee formed at
Sweet Briar two years earlier. And Martha von Briesen
glowingly showed me photostats of the recently found
letters of Elijah Fletcher. I went over to Amherst and
heard from Eliza Payne Eskridge's own lips the story of
Indiana Williams' death and how Mrs. Eskridge herself
had found her will. Before I knew it I was hooked ! There
was no question of whether I could or should write the
history. I was too absorbed to stop.

So we left campus with the rear of the car sagging
under stacks of Br'nn Patches, catalogues. Alumnae News' i.
handbooks, and the collection of the former committee.
The day after we returned to Princeton I retired to the
house of a neighbor on vacation and pitched into that
mountain of paper. What may loosely be referred to as
my filing system led to the expansive strewing of manila
folders over piano, coffee table, desk, hre bench and sofa
while for some weeks I typed notes at a card table in the
middle of the room.

And of course I had a considerable correspondence.
Miss Florence Robinson had enthusiastically answered my
request for help by spending many a broiling day in the
Lynchburg library searching newspaper files of 1901 to
1906. She kept sending nuggets on Lynchburg's reaction
to the ferment going on at that time out at Sweet Briar.
Miss Mary K. Benedict was unable to write herself but her
sister, Miss Florence Benedict, wrote otten, generously help-
ing to obtain and \erify data. And Miss Dee Long was
more excited than almost anyone at the prospect of record-
ing the story of Sweet Briar. She was steeped in Fletcher

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lore and had been deeply interested in Miss McVea. She
joyfully wrote frequent letters, turning over invaluable
gleanings of her own. After her death in December her
sister wrote that even on the morning that she was taken
to the hospital she had been writing something for me.
Enclosed was a piece on Miss McVea and I used almost
every word of it.

In the course of the year I went to Vermont where
Elijah Fletcher's great-niece, Miss Fanny Fletcher, gave mc
and Freddy a memorable night at Fletcher Farm. Once I
spent the night with Miss Glass in Charlottesville and W'e
must have talked at least nine hours. Even the episode
there of the snake in the bathtub with me did not suffice to
divert for long our conversation from our favorite college.
And I made four more trips to Sweet Briar. One time I
spent a week in the dean's waiting room reading the min-
utes of the board of directors — a record too precious to be
moved more than thirty feet from the vault in the treasurer's
office. Another week was devoted to the basement of the
library perusing documents from the locked stack. My
vividest memory there — no help to the history — is the
section of thirteen pages in the faculty minutes which are
thoroughly and utterly blacked out with India ink. I talked
with Dr. Rollins a number of times and with many of the
campus inhabitants as well as citizens of Amherst. 'When-
ever I left Sweet Briar my head was seething with stories
and comments on some or all periods of college life —
and several times I had completely lost my voice.

■When material became so abundant that I had to decide
on organization of the history it seemed to fall naturally
into an introductory chapter on the Fletcher family, about
which enough is now known to fill a book by itself. Then
comes an account of the five years when college was a-build-
ing — which is quite a story. The third chapter describes
opening year and is followed by five chapters focussed
upon the successive presidents. Our five presidents are
enticing subjects. I hope that I have been able to com-
municate the portraits which have emerged in my own
mind of these women, each with her strongly individual
stamp, all of a single mind as to the nature and quality of
the college they were working for.

Since a history like this speaks for so many people I
earnestly wanted someone to share the responsibility of
seeing that the subject was adequately covered, to check for
errors of fact or interpretation, and to criticize the reada-
bility of my efforts. At my request Mrs. Pannell appointed
a committee, partly reconstituting the original committee
for the history and adding a number of alumnae, under the
chairmanship of an alumna member of the board of over-
seers, Julia Sadler de Coligny, '34.

By October 1954 I started submitting typescript to this
committee, chapter by chapter, and those ladies considered
every word with their whole minds! I had a jolly time
dealing with the notes of thirteen people who commented
on everything from my tendency, inspired by the Princeton
Press, to eliminate commas and capitals to the question of
how much space should be allowed for stories of the aston-
ishing Miss Czarnomska. (I had to admit that her adven-
tures in Syria were fascinating but a little irrele\'ant.) So
at suggestions from the committee I deleted, rewrote, re-
arranged — and sometimes just told them that my version
seemed satisfactory.

I met with members of this committee three times at

Sweet Briar and no matter how many objections they raised
they were such experts in personnel management that they
invariably sent me away feeling encouraged. They also had
a chance to share my feeling of a curiously anachronistic
character of this history. The word history rings with
echoes of times past whereas we were still surrounded with
characters from every period of our history. { How unlike
our task was that of the recent Princeton historian who set
down most of his story and coolly terminated it at the
year 1896!) "We were made acutely aware of this blend
of present-in-past one July day when the temperature was
in the nineties and the humidity not describable in mere
numbers. The committee was meeting in Garden Cottage
and discussing how best to vivify an account of student life
during the early part of Miss Glass's administration, when
we heard a familiar voice outside. In a moment a lady was
at the door — Miss Glass ! After a gay greeting to each of
us she departed leaving us wondering whether we were
working not so much on a history as on a committee report,
king-size.

In August 1955 I rewrote the last pages of the last
chapter on the Maasdam and mailed them back from South-
ampton. By that time if anyone wanted changes or addi-
tions she more or less had to make them herself. As I told
the committee, I felt as if they were having to move in
after I had baked a cake and to clean up my kitchen for me.
Well, they did that — picked up all the loose ends — and
they baked a few cupcakes of their own. For the sake of
wieldiness an editorial sub-committee had evolved to put
on the final whipped cream and the cherry — to continue
this edible metaphor. Martha von Briesen, Marion Rollins,
Elizabeth 'Wood, and Beth Muncy gathered and organized
some more material; Mrs. Pannell wrote the preface and
was overseer for some of the appendices listing data im-
portant for reference; Julie de Coligny wrote the foreword
and made several trips over from Richmond to confer on
photographs, source notes and a number of things which
will look simple to you when you see the book — because
they organized them so carefully.

Martha von Briesen, with her continual experience in
publication, has undertaken the technical arrangements.
Estimates for printing were obtained from four firms and
the Princeton University Press was chosen. It seems that
for a book of limited interest such as this a press could not
undertake publication but may be commissioned to print
the book without editorial or promotional responsibility.
Our committee has done the editing and the Alumnae
Association will do the selling. But the Princeton Press
uses all its facilities for the actual making of the book.
More than a year ago Martha, Alma ALni/ii Rotnem, '36,
an alumna member of the committee who lives in Princeton,
and I had a most satisfactory conference with the Press's
director, Mr. Herbert Bailey, and its typographer, Mr. P. J.
Conkwright. Mr. Conkwright has won many prizes as a
book designer and the enthusiasm and application which he
brings to a task suggests why he is so successful. He fairly
radiated ideas and even asked for a Sweet Briar plate from
which he could take an appropriate flower motif for the
cover design and title page.

The linotypers are already at work, now in September.
Then proof-readers, indexer, and bookbinders will come
into play and perhaps — ju.st perhaps — by Christmas you
will have a new book to read.

November, 1956

SWEET BRIAR ROUNDUP TIME
FOR THE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

As SWEET BRIAR'S Jubilee Year enters its final two
months, a concerted effort is being made to complete
the college's $2,500,000 half -century fund. Present total in
gifts and pledges: $1,750,000. Needed before December
31, 1956: $750,000.

The college's 51st academic year began last month with
eighty girls living in the beautiful new "William Bland Dew
Dormitory — for which Street Briar Neivs reporter Mary
Ann Wilson, '57, of Chattanooga, Tenn., suggests the con-
traction: "Dewdorm." Reporter Wilson, a Dew resident
herself, describes the "general bliss" of living in this new
building, with ample closet space, and "the absolute luxury
of showers which do not alternately freeze or scald their
utilizers because of certain inexplicable connections with
other facilities." She concludes that "life can be beautiful
— if you live in William Bland Dew Dormitory."

Another less obvious result of the Development Pro-
gram, made possible by the generosity and hard work of
the college's many friends, is the 10^^ rise in faculty sala-
ries — the second in 1955-56 — which went into effect July 1.
To guarantee the new salary scale, the Board voted to in-
crease the over-all fee by $200, beginning in 1957-58, but
funds received for faculty salaries from the Alumnae Fund,
from students and faculty, and from business and industry
in the Old Dominion, through the Virginia Foundation for
Independent Colleges, enabled the Board to make the salary
raises effective immediately.

Campus Enthusiasm "Like the Measles"

On campus, where a new building and higher faculty
salaries are most easily appreciated, the Campus Develop-
ment Committee, headed by Professor G. Noble Gilpin,
has been making plans for this fall and winter. The com-
mittee hopes to solicit personal contributions from all stu-
dents who have not already subscribed to the fund, and to

win the support of new members of the faculty and staff
and thus maintain the 100% participation of those groups.
At the same time, the Student Development Committee,
headed by Lee Haskell, '57, of Salem, Mass., has plans to
stage a variety of activities, stunts, and benefits on campus
to raise additional funds for the program.

Both these campus groups are getting solid support
from The Sweet Briar News. Editor Nannette McBurney,
'57, of Bronxville, N. Y., devoted a full page of the paper's
first issue to the Development Program. Included was a
letter from Dr. Connie M. Guion, chairman of the De-
velopment Committee, who complimented the students for
their share in this endeavor. Using an appropriate medical
figure. Dr. Guion wrote that the girls' enthusiasm will
spread "like the measles and infect everyone far and wide."
She also emphasized that "our job for Sweet Briar is not
just the narrow scope of 'money-getting.' Money we must
have but it is not worth the getting if we lose sight of why
we get it. Our fundamental job is the development of the
character, mind, and body of each student ..."

Editor McBurney also devoted the first News editorial
to a plea to all students "to work and to contribute so that
our college can maintain its present high standards not only
for our benefit but for the benefit of those who come after
us." Striking a mid-century note, she added: "As students
we should be proud of our college's past; as alumnae we
want to be proud of our college's future."

Lynchburg-Amherst County Adds to Total

Even before the fall term began. Sweet Briar's closest
friends in Lynchburg and Amherst County got their own
final roundup under way. President Pannell invited thirty
members of the Lynchburg-Amherst County Development
Committee to a dinner meeting at Sweet Briar House on
September 13. Chairman Lawson Turner, who noted that
this group had already raised a total of $142,000 for the
college, announced the names of nine new members who
agreed to help this committee finish the job for Sweet Briar.
Most of the new recruits are old friends of the college and
have been helping the committee unofficially in the past.
One of them, Mr. James R. Caskie, delighted Mrs. Pannell's
dinner guests with recollections of his visits to the campus
in Sweet Briar's early days.

New 16mm Sweet Briar Film for Fall Showing

Throughout the country, Sweet Briar Clubs, and alum-
nae in other areas where "Speak Up for Sweet Briar" events
were held in 1953, 1954, and 1955, are making plans to
get together again for a final roundup this fall or winter.

SWEET BRIAR HOUSE IN ATLANTA

President Anne Pannell records her personal message to
Su'eet Briar alumnae for a new sound color film, "News
of '36." now available for showing by alumnae groups
throughout the country. This filming took place in At-
lanta's Protestant Radio & Television, where the proper
setting was created with the assistance of Daisy Williams,
tvhose picture, borrowed fro/n Sweet Briar House, hangs
in the background. Aiargaret Davison, '34g. and Dede
Candler, '56g, are pictured with Mrs. Pannell in this scene.

Mr. and Mrs. John D. Capron, Dean Pearl, Lavcson W.
Turner and Lucile Borrow Turner, '20, Giles H. Miller,
Elizabeth AU/rton Forsyth, '36, and James R. Caskie were
among those who toured William Bland Dew Dormitoiy
with the Lynchburg-Amherst Committee, September 13.

A special attraction for these meetings will be the brand
new sound color film, "News of '56," showing highlights
of the college's Jubilee Year. For this film, President Pan-
nell traveled to a radio and television studio in Atlanta to
record her personal message to Sweet Briar alumnae, hus-
bands, parents, and friends. To provide a proper setting,
the large picture of Daisy Williams which hangs in the
west parlor of Sweet Briar House also made the trip, and
Daisy appears in the film's final sequence. Prints of the
new film are now available for any Sweet Briar group that
would like to show it. To reserve one, please write to
Director of Development John Hunter Detmold, telling
him the date of your meeting.

Development Chairmen Plan Selective Solicitation

For this roundup phase, area development cluirmen,
working with their own committee members and with
club officers, are urged to make personal calls on those who
have not yet contributed to the Development Program but
should be able and willing to do so, and on many of those
who have already demonstrated their interest by their gifts.
This "selective solicitation" will thus be directed at the
college's best friends — including alumnae, husbands, and
parents, who will be asked to increase the share they
already have in the college's future — as well as those who
have not as yet subscribed to the program but might wish
to join in this final effort to reach the goal.

Special Goal: the Rollins Chair of Religion

Special emphasis will be placed on one aspect of the
Development Program: the need to raise Si 00,000 in order
to qualify for the conditional grant of $50,000 from the
Kresge Foundation, to establish the Wallace F. Rollins
Professorship of Religion, which will be the second en-
dowed chair in the college's 50-year history. Gifts from
Sweet Briar alumnae, faculty and staff, and from former
students of Dr. Rollins at the 'Virginia Theological Semi-
nary, already total more than 515,000. To every dollar con-
tributed for this purpose the Kresge Foundation will add
fifty cents. When the full Sno,000 is completed, it will
be added to the permanent endowment funds of the col-
lege — always one of the key objectives of the half-century

Development Program — increasing the over-all Develop-
ment total by that much. It will also release annual salary
funds now going to the Department of Religion and thus
help to increase faculty salaries in all departments.

Science Building, Auditorium Coming Up Next

This fall roundup for Sweet Briar will also include
foundations and national corporations which have been
kept informed of Sweet Briar's progress and needs, and
will now be asked to help complete the college's half-cen-
tury fund. With its completion, construction can be started
on the new Science Building and the long-hoped-for Audi-
torium and Fine Arts Center, which will add so much to
the daily lives of all Sweet Briar students — including those
first eighty Dewdormites !

CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR 1956-57
Sweet Briar College

September 2 1
22

October 5

17
17

17, 18
26, 27

27
November 9

16, 17

30
December 2

16
January 4

11,

February

13,

15
26

March

1
3

15,

April

May

June

2
3
3

Opening Convocation
Richard Dyer-Bcnnet: The Voice of
Minstrelsy

Perry Laukhuff. Woodrow Wilson
Lecture

Brink and Pinkham, violin and harp-
sichord concert
Founders' Day celebration
Iren Marik, piano recital
Meeting of Alumnae Council
Paint and Patches production, Hedda
Gabler
Parents' Day

Dr. Martha B. Lucas. Eugene William
Lyman Lecture in the philosophy of
religion
Senior Show

Meeting of Board of Overseers
Joyce Grenfell

Olin Pettingill, Audubon lecturer
Sweet Briar College Choir with Wash-
ington and Lee Glee Club. The
Messiah

Christmas Carol Service
Gunnar Johansen, piano recital
Paint and Patches production
Meeting of Alumnae Council
(tentative date)

Vienna Octet, chamber music concert
Dr. Lily Ross Taylor, Phi Beta Kappa
Lecture

Modern Dance program
National Symphony Orchestra
Paint and Patches — Sweet Briar Col-
lege Choir production, lolanthe
Manpower Conference
Justin O'Brien. French lecture
Randall Jarrell. Poetry reading, Vir-
ginia Poetry Society meeting
May Day

President's Garden Party
Baccalaureate sermon
Forty-eighth annual commencement
Annual meeting of Sweet Briar Alum-
nae Association; Alumnae College

NoviMBiR. 1956

Harriet Shaw McCurdy

by Martha B. Lucas, President of
Siveel Briar College. 1946-19^0

WHEN Harriet Shaw McCurdy died in Washington
on August thirtieth, Sweet Briar College lost one of
its best friends and most distinguished alumnae. Those of
us who worked with Terry during the years she served as
Alumnae Secretary at the college, from 1947 to 1950, knew
"first hand" how much her ability, charm and devotion
meant to the college. And alumnae, far and wide, had
good reason to appreciate the efficiency and originality with
which Terry handled their relations with the college. But
it was during the years which followed her resignation in
1950 that Terry's colleagues and fellow alumnae came to
know a human being of extraordinary courage and spiritual
power.

The story of Terry's life was the story of two great
loves. And one of them was Sweet Briar College. I real-
ized that the day I first met Terry, in the spring of 1947.
She had come to my office at the college to be interviewed
as a candidate for the position of Alumnae Secretary. She
was charming, chic, extremely well informed, and she had
an impressive record of public service and business experi-
ence. I already knew from the college record most of the
facts of Terry's life and a good deal more about her achieve-
ments than her gentle modesty would ever permit her to
reveal. She had been born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where
her family was living temporarily in connection with the
leaf tobacco business. At five she had been brought by her
family to a house in Pelham, New York, which was to be
"home" as she grew up. In Pelham she had attended public
schools and graduated from High School in 1933. The
following four years had been spent at Sweet Briar College
majoring in History, being active in the International Rela-
tions and Biology clubs, and serving as Editor-in-chief of
the Sueel Briar News. The ten years between 1937, when
she took her B. A. degree at Sweet Briar College, and her
return for our interview had been spent in many and varied
activities: studying at the Graduate School of Business Ad-
ministration of New York University, in temporary sales
jobs at Lord and Taylor's and B. Altman's, as a full-time
volunteer Office Manager and Assistant to the Director of
Civilian Defense in Pelham and as a volunteer with the Red
Cross Motor Corps, from 1941 to 1943. She had received
public recognition after the war as the Pelham citizen who
had contributed more hours of volunteer service than any
other in the town. From 1944 to 1946 she held the posi-
tion of salesman (sic) with the Wall Street Investment
House of Adams and Peck. With all of this, she had found
time to be an active member of the Junior League in Pel-
ham and a president of Westchester's Sweet Briar Alumnae
Club.

Terry Shaw had been busy, and the record looked good.
Furthermore, this Sweet Briar alumna had the personal
qualities for the job: mature judgment, good taste, the
ability to express herself well, a delightful manner and

appearance, and, I felt "in my bones," that most important
attribute of all, basic moral integrity. But one question
troubled me. How would a person with so much to offer
the college, from so varied and stimulating a background
of experience, stand up under the day and night demands
of college work, indeed under the downright drudgery of
office routines when a deadline is at hand .' The answer I
came to know that day and had confirmed in the years that
followed. Terry Shaw loved Sweet Briar College. It had
been a love at first sight, back in 1933, and a lasting love,
bringing her, ten years after her graduation, to discuss a
job in which she felt she might be of service to her college
and help it to become one of the finest colleges in the
country.

Terry Shaw became Sweet Briar's Alumnae Secretary;
and as her co-worker for the next three years, I can testify
to the vision, the hard work, and the selfless devotion which
she gave to her college. Whatever things were noble,
liberal and of a high order she cherished for Sweet Briar.
Whatever things were bigotted, authoritarian, or obscur-
antist, she forthrightly opposed. She would make no com-
promise with excellence, and there was no limit to the work
she was willing to do in order to help her college advance
toward the role she cherished for it. I remember especially
the hard work we all put in as we prepared in 1948 and
1949 the college's case for admission to Phi Beta Kappa.
Terry made an invaluable contribution to our documenta-
tion; and when I could announce to the college in Septem-
ber of 1949 that Sweet Briar had been granted a chapter
of Phi Beta Kappa, her joy was like a mother's with her
first born !

It was a sad day for Sweet Briar when Terry resigned
from her Alumnae Office position in 1950; but she went
right on thinking and planning and working for Sweet
Briar . . . even though her other love had come along. At
the annual meeting of the American Alumni Council in
1948, Terry had met Charles Post McCurdy, then directing
the Alumni Office at William and Mary College. Undoubt-
edly, any young woman of judgment, taste and intellectual
acuity would have considered Charles McCurdy the One she
had been looking for. But, as it happened, Terry, and only
Terry, was the girl for whom Charlie had been looking.
And so, in the fullness of time, Charlie proposed marriage.
In recalling this event, he has written me:

"This proposal she accepted on a hilltop to the west of
the campus where I think are buried some of the
Founding Mothers of Sweet Briar. At the age of 39
I was so shocked by all of this that on a Sunday after-
noon, while driving back to Williamsburg in a com-
plete fog, I rather inordinately drove through that
barren waste of Virginia known as Buckingham Coun-
ty at over 60 miles an hour and was promptly hailed
down by a member of the local constabulary. The only
reason I escaped fine or other discipline was that there
was no Justice of the Peace available on Sunday after-
noon before whom I could be arraigned."

Quite obviously Harriet Vandeveer Shaw and Charles Post
McCurdy were well met. The wit and wisdom, the sense
and sensitivity, the goodness and kindness of each had a
marriage "made in heaven." And in a very real and true
sense, in a sense too deep for smiles or tears, they "lived
happily ever after," through years of extreme suffering and

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anxiety, and of profound spiritual growth, 'til death did
them part. Theirs was one of the greatest love stories ot
them all.

Terry and Charlie were married in November of 1950.
They lived at first at Williamsburg, where Terry worked,
as a Grey Lady, with the patients of a public mental hos-
pital. She also helped to establish a Mental Hygiene Clinic
to serve Williamsburg and the surrounding area. Then
there was an eight month stretch of homemaking and hos-
pital service in Brooklyn, New York, when Charlie was
serving as a special fund raiser for the Harvard Divinity
School. Then in December of 1952, when Charlie became
FxecTitive Secretary of the State Universities Association,
they mo\ed to Washington, D. C. There they established
themselves in a typical Georgetown "house and garden,"
which Terry, with her exquisite taste and artistry, soon
turned into a charming and beautiful home.

But already a shadow had fallen across the sunlit path-
way of their happy life together. In July of 1952, I had
received a letter from Terry, about the political conventions
and a forthcoming trip to Louis\ille and, quite incidentally,
a recent cancer operation. With her usual airy style she
announced:

"Ha\e had a bad surgical bout due to a fortunately early
and self-discovered breast cancer. Am glad to say I
was able to get out of the hospital in record time and
now, seven weeks later, am driving the car and have
free use of my right arm. I also feel as though I could
slay any dragons that came my way. After the initial
shock somehow I felt as though I could never know
fear again. My family and Charlie literally surrounded
me with love and goodness so I could not help but be
okay."

The- rest of the letter was about projects and plans and
people, all of which interested her far more than did her
own illness. But "slaying dragons" was to be Terry's prin-
cipal occupation for the next four years. Metastasis oc-
curred: the cancer spread, necessitating frequent hospitali-
zation, all manner of experimental treatment, and untold
suffering. At the same time she lost her beloved father;
and h;r wonderful mother was subjected to serious surgery.
It ever anyone fought the good fight during the years of a
life, it was Terry Shaw McCurdy. I remember a letter I
had from her last year: "It's good to have spinal cancer;
you knovv' where to fight it." Whenever I saw her or heard
from her, she was the same gay, optimistic, charming human
being, full of plans for the future, full of enthusiasm lor
Sweet Briar College. And always in her eyes and in the
aura of her acceptance of adversity, I saw the light of the
great love she shared with Charles McCurdy. The last time
I went to see her, late last spring, she was almost com-
pletely immobilized, "temporarily," as she said. She prom-
ised to come to Connecticut for a visit with me in August,
and she said that she would plan to drive with me to Sweet
Briar in November, for the Lyman Lecture.

Neither to her friends nor to her family did Terry ever,
during those tragic years, complain of her lot in life or
indulge m the slightest expression of sell -pity. Her con-
cern was always for others. Her life was dedicated to other
people and to the great and good causes in which she
believed. Nor, I think, did it ever occur to her that she

Harriet Shaw McCurdv
1914 - 1916

was being heroic. She simply believed in Life and had
the courage and the nobility to fight magnificently for what
she believed in. Her last words to her husband before she
died were: "... There is no disgrace in giving up this
fight now. I want to go out in dignity. " She rests now on
a lovely knoll in Arlington Cemetery, above the city of
Washington. And a beech tree grows nearby.

As 1 watched Terry live and die, I thought deeply about
the meaning of life, and especially of her life. For me her
handling of the human situation brought into clear focus
the inestimable value, perhaps the essential purpose of a
liberal education. I had always thought of Liberal Educa-
tion as that kind of education which liberates an individual
from prejudice and shortsightedness, enabling a person to
make free and just decisions for himself and for society.
But in Terry's life I saw a person freed also from fear,
perhaps the most deadly monster in the labyrinth of living.
And 1 have wondered if this freedom from fear should not
be the ultimate goal of our plans for a liberal education
which may be truly liberating.

And yet Terry's own last word, "dignity," sticks in my
mind. The manner of her living and of her dying, her
handling of the verities and the severities of existence, gave
me a new dimension for human dignity and a deeper under-
standing of what human beings may yet become. In the
dignity of her living, I saw death swallowed up in Victory.

NOVfiMBER, 1956

Caroline Sharpe Sanders, '19, and Florence Fowler Freeman,
'19, discuss the recently established Chapel Memurial Fund.

BECAUSE Sweet Briar is a young college, it has been
the habit of thought of its alumnae to consider our-
selves a young group. However the increasing number of
obituaries which appear in the Alumnae News brings us
up with a start. The college is coming into its strong ma-
turity, but the individuals whom we have known, and who
have loved and worked for Sweet Briar, will more and
more be entering the larger life.

For the class of 1919 this was brought home poig-
nantly by the death of Rosanne Gilmore. We had never
envisioned a day when she would not be carrying the class
burden of the Fund, and working tirelessly for the welfare
of Sweet Briar as a whole. As a matter of fact this effort
has not stopped for she remembered the college in her will,
looking forward with characteristic practicality toward
Sweet Briar's future.

The sorrow evoked by Rosanne's death brought into
the minds of several of her classmates a plan that carries
on our tradition of vigorous action, with the translation of
sentiment into usefulness.

Our plan is that, instead of sending flowers or giving
a sum to charity when we learn of the death of a Sweet
Briar friend, we would send to the college a memorial gift
to be placed in a special Chapel Memorial Fund and desig-
nated for special furnishings of the Chapel.

Chapel Memorial Fund
Established by Alumnae

Our memorial gifts, be they one dollar, or a thousand,
could be invested and drawing interest until such time as
the Chapel is erected which we hope will be in the near
future.

Under this plan the names of all donors and those to
whom we wished to pay tribute would be inscribed in a
memorial book which would be placed in the Chapel, and
a card of notification would be sent to the family of the
deceased.

No solicitations shall be made for this memorial fund.
It merely gives us an opportunity to express honor and
affection for our deceased Sweet Briar friends.

Those who are familiar with college chapels at Oxford
and Cambridge and their richness in memorials, will re-
member the moving sense of oneness with the past that is
thus conveyed. Sweet Briar is young, but as the years pass,
it will be an added source of dignity and strength if the
lives that fashioned and loved her are drawn together in
honored memory.

The above icas read at the annual meeting of the Siveet
Briar Alumnae Association on June 4, 1956, by Florence
Freeman Fowler, 19g. This plan for a Chapel Memorial
Fund had evolved from the work of Flo and Elizabeth
Eggleston of the class of 1919 and Gertrude Dally
Massie, 22g.

The Alumnae Association was enthusiastic about this
plan as a way of honoring Sweet Briar friends who have
died, and asked that this plan be presented to all alumnae
in the October issue of the Alumnae News. There will
never be any solicitation of any kind for this fund. How-
ever, word of this has spread and already many checks
have been sent to the Alumnae Office for the Chapel Mem-
orial Fund in honor of Sweet Briar friends and other
loved ones.

Gifts for this Chapel Memorial Fund should be sent
to the Alumnae Office and should include the name of the
person to be honored and the name and address of the
members of the family to whom an engraved card will be
sent.

Benedict Scholarship Continues to Grow

During the year 1955-56 $2,138.00 was added to the Mary K. Benedict Scholarship, through gifts from
Sweet Briar alumnae and friends of Miss Benedict. This brings the endowment of this scholarship, named for
Sweet Briar's first president, to $18,296.76. It is the hope of the Alumnae Association and of the college that
those who knew and loved Miss Benedict will continue to add to this fund. Its continued growth will pay
increasing tribute to Miss Benedict and will carry on the scholarship program which was so close to her heart.

Alumnae Net,

FRESHMAN ALUMNAE DAUGHTERS

First row; Diana Muldaur (Alice Jones, '30g); Judith Berke-
ley (Dorothy Allen Smith. ■32g); Eleanor Read (Susalee Bes-
ler, '33); Norvell Orgain (Norvell Royer, ■30g). Second row:
Susan Hendricks (Helen Closson, '34); Ellen Nichols (Ellen
Brown, '23); Sue Ford (Sara Kirkpatrick, ■37g); Florence Mc-
Gowen (Ellen Pratt, "i'le.): Elizabeth Forsyth (Elizabeth Mor-
ton, '36g). Third row: Brownie Lee (Rebekah E. Strode, '34g);
Rebecca Towill (Harriet Dunlap, '23g); Page McFall (Kath-
arine Beury, '31g); Adrianne Massie (Gertrude Dally, '22g);
Nancy Cornell (Eleanor Branch, '28g).

IT is a matter of pride to us that many of our alumnae
daughters are distinguishing themselves at Sweet Briar.
It seems to us significant that they arc doing extremely well
in college and are occupying many positions of prominence
in college life. We point with pride:

To alumnae daughters who are on the Dean's List this
semester: Jane Best, '57, daughter of Jane Lee Best, '23g;
Ann Gwinn, '57, daughter of Martha Anne Hitney Gwinn,
'36; June Berguido, '58, daughter of Marion ]ay)!e Ber-
guido, '28g; Susan Calhoun, '58, daughter of Mary Swift
Calhoun, '31; Maud Winborne Leigh, '58, daughter of
Maud ]Y^inbor)ie Leigh, '35; Kenan Myers, '58, daughter
of Jessie Hall Myers, '31g; Elizabeth Smith, '58, daughter
of Jane Callison Smith, '30g; Letha 'Wood, '58, daughter
of Letha Aiorris Wood, '32g; Ethel Bruner, '59, daughter
of Ethel Gaines Bruner, '24; and Alice Parker, '59, daugh-
ter of Alice Dahiiey Parker, '32g.

To two alumnae daughters and an alumnae niece three
times over who are the ranking members of their classes:
Jane Best of the class of '57; Kenan Myers of the class of
'58; and Elizabeth Johnston of the class of '59; Elizabeth
is the niece of Carrington Lancasler Pasco, '40g, Elizabeth
Lancaster Washburn, '4lg, and Alice Lancaster Buck, '44g.

To Elizabeth Smith, who is at St. Andrews this year;
to Jane Pinckney, '57, daughter of Charlotte Kent Pinckney,
'31g, who was at St. Andrews last year; and to Letha Wood,
who is studying in France this year.

To the following alumnae daughters who hold impor-
tant campus positions: Jane Best, Secretary of the Athletic

We Point

With Pride

Association; Marguerite McDaniel, '57, daughter of Mar-
guerite Hodnett McDaniel, '28g, President of the Art and
Music Club; Jane Pinckney, Chairman of Y. W. C. A. com-
mission; June Berguido, president of Randolph; Mary Lane
Bryan, '58, daughter of Ellen Newell Bryan, '26, 'Vice-
President of the Junior Class; Susan Calhoun, Secretary
of Student Government; Maud Winborne Leigh, Repre-
sentative on the Joint Council; Marian Martin, '58, daugh-
ter of Boyce Lo/key Martin, '30, member of the Judicial
Board; and Ethel Bruner, Vice-President of the Sophomore
Class.

To June Berguido, Susan Calhoun, Maud Winborne
Leigh, and Marian Martin, elected to membership in Q. V.,
and to Claire Cannon, '58, daughter of Cordelia Penn
Cannon, '34g, tapped by the Bum Chums.

To June Berguido; Maud Winborne Leigh; Linda
Sturgeon, '59, daughter of Mary Copeland Sturgeon, '29g;
and Rebekah Lee, '60, daughter of Rebekah Strode Lee,
'34g, who hold scholarships. To Jane Best, who is an
assistant in the Department of Philosophy, Psychology and
Education, and to Marguerite McDaniel, who is an assistant
in the Music Department.

To Jane Shipman, '58, daughter of Martha AUBroom
Shipman, '31g, who is chairman of the student hostesses
who have the responsible position of showing the college
to guests and entertaining prospective students.

At the first step singing this fall Jane Best and Jane
Pinckney, who are seniors, and June Berguido and Marian
Martin were tapped by Tau Phi.

EMILY WATTS McVEA SCHOLARS

Elizabeth Johnston, 'S9 (niece of three graduates, Carrington,
Elizabeth and Alice Lancaster). Kenan Myers. '58 (daughter of
Jessie Hall, '3lg), and Jane Best. '57 (daughter of Jane Leo,
'23g) have the highest academic rank in their classes and are thus
named the McVea Scholars for 1956-57.

November, 1956

WITH THE CLUBS:

At a Jinner r.iLLting of tlit. Cxiui.il Oliui Club. Sl-iIlJ (Ictt to
right): Marianne Vorys Minister, ''j2 (Secretary); Jeanne
Sluddiird Barends, '54 (Alumnae Representative); Kay Fi/zgeiJJ
Booker, '47; Elinor Vorys, '^4 (Project Chairman). Standing:
Dr. Chari.es McGavran. Betty Kliiu-diiisl McGavran, "i't
(Treasurer); Sue Filzgeidd Van Horne, '47 (Vice-President);
Dr. Frederick Barends, Mr. Thorp Minister, Mr. William
Van Horne with frur year old son. Bill.

The New York Club is again going all out for a
theatre benefit. Invitations have been mailed to friends
and all Sweet Briar alumnae in the New York area invit-
ing them to attend a performance on December 14 ol
"Happy Hunting, " a musical comedy starring Ethel Mer-
man. Write the Alumnae Office or Mrs. Stephen Botsford,
243 East 48th St., New York 17, for information if you
will be in New York at this time. This promises to be a
most gala occasion!

In September the Chicago Club sponsored a wonder-
ful concert given by Sweet Briar's own concert pianist, Iren
Marik.

Our two youngest clubs, Columbus, Georgia, and
Columbus, Ohio, have both been active. The Georgia
Club insited prospective students to see the slides at a tea
in October and are planning a College Day in February.
The Ohio group, which is now called The Sweet Briar Club
of Central Ohio, had a gay dinner meeting on October 7
(sec cut). This club is delighted with its profit of $\(y'^
on bulbs this year.

Starting with a luntheon on September 6 for the new
students. Southern Connecticut embarked on a full pro-
gram for the year. Gladys W'eslcr Horton, president of the

Alumnae Association, spoke to this club on October 23 at
a tea meeting and on November 16 there will be a tea for
prospective students.

From the Development (Committee of Sweet Briar Col-
lege in Washington have gone invitations to a Sweet Briar
Roundup for November 13. Special guests at the party will
be President Anne Gary Pannell and Mr. Charles Murchi-
son, member of the Board of Oveerseers. The Honorable
Edward Thompson Wailes, member of Sweet Briar's Board
of Overseers, was also scheduled to speak at the meeting.
However, Mr. Wailes, the new Ambassador to Hungary,
left for Budapest earlier than had been planned.

Houston, Texas, offered a $500 scholarship this year
due to a most successful sale of Christmas cards last year.
This is an idea for other clubs who don't sponsor the bulb
project.

The clubs ol Baltimore, Ne'w York City, Northern
Ne'w Jerse'y, Philadelphia, Richmond, Westchester
County, Washington, D. C and Wilmington, Dela-
ware, all have scholarship girls in college this year.

The first of the "Sweet Briar Roundups" was held in
Cincinnati, closely followed by Richmond on October 30,
when the new "home movie " was shown for the first time.
Seeing the moxie on November 18 will be the Rochester,
New York group. Mr. John Detmold, Director of De\ el-
opment, will speak to this club at that time.

Cleveland will see the movie at a meeting on Novem-
ber 13 and Philadelphia has an event planned for Decem-
ber 9. New Jersey alumnae and husbands will gather on
December 12 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Horton.

Pittsburgh, Richmond, Wilmington and Lynchburg

have all sent generous checks for the Wallace E. Rollins
Professorship Fund.

Phoebe Roue Peters, Director of Clubs, was guest of
honor at the meeting of the St. Louis Club in October.

Birmingham, Alabama; Westchester County;
Richmond; Minneapolis-St. Paul; Baltimore and Pitts-
burgh are among the clubs that have already entertained
for new and prospective students.

Alumnae News

OPERATION TULIP BULB

$36,274.00 IN 1956
OVER $117,000 IN FIVE YEARS

PHASE ONE of Operation Tulip Bulb for 1956 is completed. Successful? Yes! Thanks to all the regular groups
and those many groups new to the campaign this year. Our hard working bookkeeper, Frances Robb, reports us over
the top with sales of 536,274.24.

We are sure that Phase Two will be equally successful, if not as strenuous. Spring and your tulip gardens will an-
nounce the completion of this final phase for 1956.

Our thanks go to all who have worked on this project. Hard work, yesl But wasn't it fun? Our best wishes go
to those who will take over for 1957. Doreen Booth Hamilton, ■54g

Betty Oivem Benziger, '55

National Co-Chairmen

1956 BULB PROJECT FINANCIAL SHEET

Croup or Club

No. Orders

Total Amount

Group or Club

No. Orders

Total Amount

Amherst, Va.

S 406.40

New York, N. Y.

344.65

Atlanta, Ga.

1,028.58

Norfolk, Va.

$1,104.45

Baltimore, Md.

113

1,536.16

Northern New Jersey

1,236.68

Bethlehem, Pa.

82.05

Peninsula, Va.

125

380.91

Boston, Mass.

584.39

Philadelphia, Pa.

1,044.69

Charleston. W. Va.

450.90

Pittsburgh, Pa.

578.69

Charlotte, N. C.

283.83

Richmond, Va.

165

2,970.31

Charlottesville, Va.

1,232.62

Roanoke, Va.

890.20

Chattanooga, Tenn.

128

1,832.56

Rochester, N. Y.

138

2,513.23

Chicago, III.

780.58

St. Louis, Mo.

243.05

Cincinnati, O.

106

1,650.43

Shepherdstown, W. Va.

146.70

Cleveland, O.

922.22

Southern Connecticut

104

1,350.18

Columbus, O.

646.77

Spartanburg, S. C.

158.30

Fredericksburg, Va.

122.75

Springfield. 111.

359.44

Indianapolis, Ind.

853.73

Toledo, O.

347.84

Kansas Cit)-, Mo.

274.73

Washington, D. C.

283

4,799.37

Louisville, Ky.

1,320.57

Westchester Co., N. Y.

9.15

Lynchburg, Va.

1,327.14

Wilmington, Del.

1,186.74

Minneapolis. Minn.

838.40

Nashville. Tenn.

434.85

Total 38

2,278

$36,274.24

Leaders hi the 1956 Bulb Campaign

Mary Ann Robb, '54, Washington Chairman; Eliza-
beth Ouens Benziger, '55, National Co - Chairman;
Frances Robb, '49, National Bookkeeper; Vrv'iENNE
B^rkalou- HoRNBECK. '18, National Honorary Chairman;
Doreen Booth Ha.milton, '54, National Co-Chairman.

NOTICE TO ALL ALUMNAE

Alumnae clubs and individual alumnae are urged
to send suggestions for this year's candidate for
.'lumna member of the Board of Overseers to the
Alumnae Office. Election will take place in the
spring.

November. 1956

Highlights of the Alumnae Council

THE Alumnae Council met at Sweet Briar October 17
and 18. Forty-six enthusiastic alumnae from fourteen
states and the District of Columbia came for three days of
hard work and enjoyment. Designed to coincide with
Founders' Day, the meeting focused the attention of the
councillors on "Education at the Mid Century — Present
Problems, Future Hopes" which was the theme for this
golden anniversary celebration.

Alumnae in cap and gown marched in the Founders'
Day procession and heard Mr. Fred M. Hechinger, Presi-
dent of Education 'Writers' Association, give the principal
address, taking for his title "American Education, Chapter
2: Tide of the Future." Educators from colleges, high
schools and independent schools were special guests of the
college for the day and joined the alumnae at lunch in Reid
Refectory. A most stimulating panel discussion was held in
the afternoon. Participating in this were Mrs. 'Wilma
Kerby-Miller, Dean of Radcliffe College, Mr. Lester W.
Nelson, Consultant, The Fund for the Advancement of
Education, and Mr. Henry I. Willett, Superintendent of
Richmond, "Virginia, Public Schools.

Following this was the general session of the Alumnae
Council with Gladys W^es/er Horton, President of the
Alumnae Association, presiding. Reports were given by
the Fund Chairman, Director of Clubs, Regional Chairmen,
Director of Alumnae Representatives and the Executive
Secretary.

"Wednesday night Iren Marik, concert pianist, gave one
of her brilliant concerts.

Thursday was a day devoted to reacquainting the alum-
nae with all phases of the college program. There were
work shops for the various groups — the Fund Agents, Re-
union Chairmen, Alumnae Representatives and Club Presi-
dents. The Councillors heard Mrs. Lill speak on the admis-
sions program. Dean Pearl on the scholarship program and
Dean Jean Louise Williams on counseling with students.

Following lunch with the students from their areas, the
alumnae promptly assembled at 2:00 for the general ses-
sion which began with Martha von Briesen's talk, "Public
Relations: Everybody's Business." John Detmold, Director
of Development, gave the alumnae a "roundup" of the
development oifice's plans and Dean Pearl introduced six
members of the faculty who spoke briefly about their par-
ticular departments or fields of interest.

Always a highlight of alumnae meetings is a visit to
Sweet Briar House for Mrs Pannell's hospitality at tea.

The evening program, the gayest session of all, began
with a wonderful steak dinner eaten to the musical accom-
paniment of the Sweet Briar Sweet Tones. Then student
leaders of the various campus organizations and clubs
joined the alumnae for coffee in the beautiful Emily
Bowen Room of Drew Hall. "Sweet Briar Today" was
the theme of the students' short talks. Hearing these
poised, intelligent young women tell of the campus life
and listening to their interpretation of the college's aims
and work today was a real inspiration. Alumnae had the
warm feeling that comes from hearing that the best loved
t'-aditions of the college are still followed and learning that
new and exciting ideas are being explored.

Alumnae Returning for
Council Meetings

Officers and Members of the Executive Board

Gladys W'^es/er Horton, '30

Phoebe Roire Peters, '31

Prince Trimmer, '56

Elizabeth Bond Wood, '34

Nan Powell Hodges, '10

Nancy Dotrd Burton, '46

Mary CLirk Rogers, '13

Dorothy Keller Iliff, '26

Ellen Newell Bryan, '26

Marion Jityne Berguido, '28

"Virginia VcV! Wmkle Morlidge, '28

Norvell Royer Orgain, '30

Agnes Cleveland Sandifer, '31

Elizabeth Myers Harding, '35

Betty Smart/ Johnson, '38

Ann Alorr/so)! Reams, '42

Marguerite Hume, '43

Margaret Mnniierlyn Haverty, '47

Barbara Lasier Edgerly, '51

Mary Lee McGinnis, '54

Ruth Hassan Smith, '30

Maplewood, N. J.
Rochester, N. Y.
Richmond, Va.
Sweet Briar, Va.
Williamsburg, "Va.
Glendale, Ohio
Atlanta, Ga.
Arlington, 'Va.
Cleveland, Ohio
Haverford, Pa.
Covington, Va.
Richmond, Va.
Spartanburg, S. C.
Westport, Conn.
Lookout Mt., Tenn.
Lynhcburg, Va.
Louisville, Ky.
Atlanta, Ga.
Princeton, 111.
Memphis, Tenn.
Pittsburgh, Pa.

Alumnae Representatives

Kitty G //errant Fields, '53
Mary Perkins Tra/tgo/t Brown,
Martha Mansfield Clement, '48
Lavalette Dillon Wintzer, '35
Elizabeth Aioore Schilling, '28
Flo Freeman Fowler, ' 1 9
Dorothy Fa/rba/rn Abdill, '26

Richmond, Va.
45 Norfolk, Va.

Silver Spring, Md.
Wilmington, Del.
Drexel Hill, Pa.
Bronxville, N. Y.
Falls Church, Va.

Club Presidents and Representatives

Elizabeth Conover, '40

Susan J el ley Dunbar, '28
Virginia Vesey Woodward,
Nancy Cofer Stacey, '47
Elizabeth Cox Johnson, '27

'33

Baltimore, Md.
New York, N.
Warwick, Va.
Norfolk, Va.
Louisville, Ky.

Fund Agents

Carolyn Mar/indale Blouin, '30

Peronne W'^h/ttaker Scott, '31

Gerry Mallory, '33

Vivienne Barkalow Hornbeck, '\i

Lucy Kiker Jones, '43

Carolyn Sbarpe Sanders, '19

South Berwick, Me.
Haworth, N. J.
Tenaily, N. J.
Washington, D. C.
Franklin, Va.
WytheviUe, Va.

Reunion Chairmen

Elizabeth H/iber Welch, '22
Mary M. Pancake Mandeville,

'32

Glenside, Pa.
Buffalo, N. Y.

Al/imnae News

Marv Lee McGinnis, '5-4, Gladys U'esrc-y Horton, '31). Phoebe
Rout; Peters. '31, Margaret Muniieilyn Havertv. '41. members
of the Executive Board, talk with Elizabeth Bond Wood, '34,
Executive Secretary.

Council members gather on the steps of the gym to en|oy a few
moments in the October sunshine before the afternoon session.

Martha von Briesen, '31, Director of Public Relations, speaks to
the Alumnae Council on "Public Relations: Everybody's Business."

ALUMNAE BACK
ROLLINS FUND

At a meeting of the Executive Board of the
Alumnae Association on Tuesday evening,
October I6th, it was voted unanimously that
the Alumnae Association undertake to help
raise the $100,000 necessary to qualify for the
Kresge Foundation's conditional grant of
$50,000 to establish the Wallace E. Rollins
Professorship of Religion. Already over
$12,000 has come in, with the class of 1931
giving its 25th reunion gift of $1,566 for this
purpose.

All alumnae are urged to help us reach this
goal, individually and through their clubs.
Now that the Manson Memorial Scholarship
is completed, the Rollins Professorship Fund
offers a wonderful opportunity for club giving.
Even clubs which have their own local scholar-
ships can raise some extra money for this most
worthy cause.

Part of the 1956-57 Alumnae Fund will be
used for the Rollins Professorship, so please
make your contribution to the Alumnae Fund
an extra-large one this year.

You may also wish to designate your "round-
up" gift to the Development Program for the
Rollins Fund. (If you are paying off an unre-
stricted pledge to the Development Program,
you can ask that your final payments be ear-
marked for the Rollins Fund, but to avoid con-
fusion, please do not try to switch earlier con-
tributions.)

In what better way can the alumnae express
their appreciation for all that Dr. and Mrs.
Rollins mean to Sweet Briar than by helping co
establish an endowed chair of religion in that
department — knowing that this will release
funds for faculty salaries in ,ill departments!
What a .sense of pride the alumnae wil! feel
if this goal can be accomplished before the
December 1, 1957, deadline .set by the Kresge
Foundation.

NOVHMBLR. 1956

THE

ALUMNAE

FUND

1951-52
1952-53
1953-54
1954-55
1955-56

$16,834.06
$17,841.60
$18,774.70
$22,483.98
$26,767.02

The Burton 1-amilv — Bobby, Robert, Clem and Nancy

The 195T-56 Alumnae Fund reached a new height.
At the Alumnae banquet on June 3 President Anne G.
Pannell was presented with a check from the Alumnae
Association of Sweet Briar College.

Much of the credit for this achievement is due the able
fund chairman, Margaret Cramer Crane. Under her leader-
ship the fund showed approximately a 45*^^ increase in the
two years she held this job. Few people have any idea of
the amount of time Margaret devoted to the Sweet Briar
Alumnae Fund.

The class fund agents ha\e shown much enthusiasm,
and due to their hard work Sweet Briar was listed on one
of the honor rolls of all alumni funds. At present we are
in seventh place among all colleges and universities in per
centage of graduate contributors to an annual alumni fund.
Dartmouth and Princeton among men's institutions and
only Mount Holyoke, Wells, Bennington and Vassar among
women's colleges had a higher percentage of graduate con-
tributors than Sweet Briar.

NEW FUND CHAIRMAN

Nancy Dotid Burton, 46g, has been elected to one of
the most important positions in the Alumnae Association.
As National Fund Chairman, she will direct the work of
the annual Alumnae Fund for the next two years.

Nancy has an outstanding record as a class fund agent.
In 1952-53, her lirst year, her class led in number of
alumnae who contributed to the fund. She was in second
place in 1953-54. The past year she again led all the rest
with eighty-eight contributors.

Nancy's husband, Robert, and his two brothers share
the distinction of being the only family to have three- mem-
bers in the same graduating class of Harvard University
(due to war-time interruptions.) Besides her work for
Sweet Briar, Nancy finds time for civic and community
activities in Cincinnati in addition to keeping up with two
active young sons.

REUNION CLASSES TAKE THE HONORS

For its 2 5th Reunion gift the Class of 1931 gave the
college $1,565.91 toward the endowment of the Wallace
E. Rollins Professorship of Religion. Natalie Roberts
Foster was chairman of this special gift fund. The class
of 1926 for its 30th anniversary celebration, under the lead-
ership of Lois Petersnii Wilson, led all classes in the
amount given to the fund. This class was also second in
the amount of the average gift, surpassed only by the class
of 1913, whose fund agent is Mary Clark Rogers.

Nancy Dnud Burton and her class celebrated their tenth
reunion by having eighty-eight members, the largest num-
ber of donors, contribute to the fund.

For its 5th year reunion th; class of 1951 was topped

only by the classes of '26 and '27 in amount given. Our
special thanks go to these young alumnae and their able
class agent, Barbara Lasier Edgerly.

A special gift of almost $200 has been given by mem-
bers of the class of 1921 to buy something of "beautiful
and lasting value " for the new William Bland Dew Dor-
mitory. Florence Woelfel is the fund agent for this class.

The first class, 1910, took its usual honors by having
the largest percentage of donors, and the class of 1913 led
in amount of average gift.

To all fund agents and to all alumnae we wish to
express the thanks of the Alumnae Association and the
college for a job well done.

Alumnae News

December 19, 1955
Mrs. Ernest M. Wood, Jr.
Alumnae Secretary
Sweet Briar College
Sweet Briar, Virginia

Dear Mrs. Wood:

Although my contribution to the Alumnae Fund has to
be small because my husband and I are engaged in mis-
sionary work, my appreciation of Sweet Briar has grown
through the years. Surrounded as we are, here in India,
by illiteracy, poverty, and sickness, with all its handicaps
and ugliness, we are made aware of the greatness of the
American heritage and the wonderful opportunities that
are available to all there. Together with this, is the greater
realization of what we. as Americans — to whom much has
been gi\en — owe to those of the world who ha\e so little.

While we were home on furlough in '53, we had a
chance to visit Sweet Briar, which I was proud to show to
my husband, two sons and daughter. It was my first trip
back since graduation in '35. Sweet Briar "looked good"
to me and I did so enjoy the opportunity of seeing Miss
Frazer, "Miss Benedict" and Mrs. Lill.

We returned to India July '54 to take up our work
again in the Vellore Christian Medical College Hospital —
my husband to continue to train young Indian surgeons in
the specialty of thoracic and cardiac surgery, I to be in
charge of our Public Relations and Publicity Department,
as well as taking care of the family and running our home
whose doors are always open to our constant visitors from
East and West.

Our children, Eugene, 13, and Anne and Peter, 12, have
to go to boarding school 300 miles from us in the coolness
of the southern ghats. Although I taught them with the
aid of Calvert's system most of our first term of five years,
it is best now for them to go to a regular school, even
though this family separation is the hardest part of mission
life. With them away a good deal of the time and with
servants at home, I am able to carry my job for the hos-
pital and college. I wonder if any other alumnae has as
interesting and challenging work!

I am grateful to all that Sweet Briar did to prepare me

An Alumna Writes

Why I

Sent a Check

to the Alumnae Fund

Martha Juiu-s Betts. '35g, and Peter, Anne and Eugene. This
picture was taken Cliristmas Day. 1948, after they had been gar-
landed with leis at the hospital.

for such an unexpected role and hope that through the
Alumnae Fund and other gifts it will continue to train
young women to meet life in all its phases.
Sincerely,

Martha Jones Betts '35

Thanks from the President

In 1955-56 our alumnae ha\e gi\en their college the
most generous support in its titty year history. No birth-
day present could mean more to Sweet Briar than the devo-
tion this represents.

On behalf of the college, as well as personally, I wish
to express our deep appreciation to each alumna who has
contributed to the Sweet Briar Alumnae Fund. These gifts
are a most tangible evidence of alumnae participation in
college achie\ements.

This year the Alumnae Fund was designated for faculty
salaries. You will be pleased to liear that your generosity

was partially responsible for the two increases the college
was able to give the faculty in the academic year 19^^5-56.
My special thanks go to Margaret Cramer Crane for her
leadership as fund chairman and to the class fund agents.
The result of their work is shown by Swe>t Briar's inclu-
sion for the first time on the Honor Roll of Alumni Funds.

Gratefully yours.

NOVKMBHR. 19°'6

1955-56 ALUMNAE FUND

Chairman's

Final Report to Class Agents

June 30, 1956

Class Year

Number Contributing

Average Gift Percentage Contributing

Anvjunt

t* Academy and

Special 80

$ 12.62 18

$ 1,010.00

*1910

21.36 92

235.00

1911

8.75 31

35.00

*1912

23.20 45

116.00

*1913

69.69 37

906.00

1*1914

10.43 33

73.00

1915

8.88 27

71.00

t*19l6

19.65 55

334.00

t*1917

8.56 57

137.00

t*1918

11.36 68

284.00

t 1919

19.06 40

324.00

t*1920

13.00 27

182.00

t*1921

16.47 42

494.00

.1=1922

19.87 31

576.22

t*1923

8.58 36

369.00

1*1924

11.46 40

447.00

*1925

20.15 31

544.00

t*1926

38.45 32

1,538.05

1*1927

24.33 42

1,240.63

t*1928

11.05 37

475.00

1*1929

12.62 38

757.00

t 1930

11.46 35

619.00

t*1931

11.36 35

522.60

*1932

12.46 33

506.50

t*1933

9.95 33

547.50

1934

13.73 35

727.50

1935

11.48 35

631.50

t*1936

11.35 37

579.00

1*1937

9.09 48

436.50

t*1938

9.41 43

593.00

1*1939

11.77 47

800.50

1940

8.08 46

533.00

*194l

10.50 40

630.00

t 1942

10.91 37

512.93

1943

10.61 45

658.00

*1944

8.42 47

547.00

1945

10.34 36

506.83

t*1946

8.80 62

774.52

t 1947

8.35 34

409.00

1948

9.52 43

694.75

*1949

10.95 44

613.00

1950

7.30 32

336.00

t*1951

14.04 52

1,010.85

1*1952

10.71 52

899.38

t*1953

8.43 50

615.50

1954

8.39 42

545.50

1955

10.14 45

700.00

1956

237.00

1957 &

1958

36.00

Friends

8.00

Washington Club

190.65

Interest from

Saxings Account

197.61

Total Number Contributing
(June 30, 1955)

; 2,162

$26,767.02
($22,503.98)

(1,9,59)

Banner

Class .

Amount Contributed

1926

Banner

Class.

1954-5

) total contributors; *Su

Number Contnbutmf?

1946

rpassed 1954-55 total amount

tSurpassed

Report of the twenty-third

ANNUAL ALUMNAE FUND

Alumnae Fund i'or faculty salaries and for the
Meta Glass Fund for faculty salaries from

2,162 Contributors $26,767.02

There are 203 more contributors this
year and an increase in amount of
$4,264.04.
For endowment of Manson Scholarship from

16 clubs and four individuals 4,772.25

For endowment of the Benedict Scholarship 2,138.00

For local scholarships from clubs 5,942.78

Class of 1921 for Dew Dormitory 171.00

Class of 1931 for Rollins Professorship 1,568.91

$41,356.96

FUND CONTRIBUTORS— 1955-56

L.M.^ — Life Member

L.M.C — Life Member and contributor in '5 5-' 56

* — Contributor for past ten consecutive years

** — Contributor for past fifteen consecutive years

*** — Contributor for past twenty consecutive years

Academy and Special

$1,010.00—18%

Agent: Nannie Claiborne Hudson

Florence Anderson

LouHe Antrim Mason

Maiy Armstrong McCIary, L.M.

Sarah Louise Arnold. L.M.

Clara Baker Backus

Helen Baker Waller

Anna Bevcridgc Leake, L.M.

Gertrude Bilhuber. L.M.

Jane Claiborne Calkins

Nannie Clnibornv Hudson

Emma Clyde Hodge, L.M.

Mildred Cobb Roosevelt

Elizabeth Preston Cocke

Elizabeth Cooke Shryock

Margery Cox White. L.M.C.

Elise Craddock Carrington

Jessie Dardcn Christian

Margaret Davits McMillin

Helen Dittenhaver. L.M.

Jessie Dixon Sayler

Margaret Duval Handy, L.M.

Carina Eaglcsfield Milligan

Faye Elliott Pogue

Addie Krwi7i Des Portes

Sarah Erwin Bellamy

Mary Ervin Townsend

Fanita Ferris Welsh

Caroline Friibnrg Marcus. L.M.

Maria Garth Inge, L.M.

Ruth Gibsojt Venning

Gillian Goodall Comer

Mary Page Grammer

Claudine Griffin Hoicomb***

Margaret Haddock Watson

Edith Harper Collier*

Alberta Hetisel Pew. L.M.

Edwina Hrriitel Wharton-Smith

Miiry Htrd Moore. L.M.C.

Eh>ise Hiritt Coupcr

Eleanor Hojnvood Fulton

Ruth Jarkson Leatherman

Josephine Johnttoji Smith

Miriam Jotictt Doggett

Margaret Kaufman Spain. L.M.C.

Emily Kersey, L.M.

Virginia I.azvnby O'Hara

Marjorie Lindsay Coon

Kathleen Logan Love. L.M.

Marie Lorton Sims, L.M.

Cynthia Magve Mead

Hazel Marshall Sterrett, L.M.C.

Grace L. Martin, L.M.

Mabel McWane Harrab

Lou Emma McWhortvr Carroll

Bonner Means Baker, L.M.

Irene Milholland McClelland

Grace Milne Smith

Mary Mixon McClintock

Grace Nicodemus Specht, L.M.

Katherine Nicolson Sydnoi-

Eloise Urmc Fort

Katherine Page

Juliet Parris Gill

Dorothy I'eekwell Cremer

Marion L. Peele*

Margaret Fotts Williams, L.M.C.***

Anne liichards&n Stanwood

Ella Rodes Hutter

Anne Royall

Louise Ryland Baker

Ruth Schabacker, L.M.C.

Julia Scott Cramer

Ethel Shoop Godwin*

Virginia Shioop Phillips

Eleanor Snuth Hall, L.M.

Sarah Smith White

Edna Stei'cs Vaughan*

Mary Stewart Carter

Mary Steivart Wylie

Marina Stiles Wilkins

Eleanor Stove Gates

Helen Strobhar Williams

Austin Turner Jones

Elizabeth Tyler Wilson

Martha Valentine Cronly, L.M.C.

Dorothy Wallace Ravenel, L.M.

Eula Weakley Cross

Celia Webb

Bessie Whrlrss Mercer

Eudalia White Lohrke*

Helen Wh itch ill Kenyon

Margaret Whitman Lakin

Margaret Wilson Ballantyne. L.M.C.

Sara Wilso7i Faulkner

Laura Woodbridge Foster

Marion Yirkes Barlow

1910— $235— 92%

Agent: F" ranees Murrell Kickards

Marjorie Cmiper Prince*

Annie Cumnock Miller

Margaret Eaglesjield Bell

Eugenia Griffin Burnett, L.M.C. *••

Louise Hooper Ewell. L.M.

Claudine Hutter

Lillian Lloyd Thayer

Frances Murrell Rickards. L.M.C.'**

Annie Powell Hodges, L.M.C.***

Adelaide Schoekey Mallory***

Helen Srhidte Tenney

Mary Scott Glass

1911— $35.00— 31%
Agent: Alma Booth Taylor

Elizabeth Atcheson Plumer

Alma Booth Taylor

Margaret Dressier Nohowel, L.M.

Virginia Hurt Turner

Ruth Lloyd. L.M.

Mary Virginia Parker, L.M.C.

1912— $116.00— 45%
Agent: Hazel Lane

Margaret Hroivning Burt

Hazel Gardner Lane**'

Frances Sloan Brady

Margaret Thomas Kreusi, L.M.C*

Loulie M. Wilson

1913— $906.00— 37%

Agent: Mary Clark Rogers

Eugenia Buffington Walcott,

L.M.C*
Clytie Carroll Allen, L.M.
Mary Clark Rogers***
Sarah Cooper

Elizabeth Crav€7i Westcott, L.M.
Corinne Dickinson
Henrianne Early**
Elizabeth Franke Balls*"
Dr. Connie M. Guion
Sue Hardie Bell**
Lucille Marshall Boethelt. L.M.
Vivian Mossman Groves*
Mary Pinkerton Kerr
Frances Richardson Pitcher, L.M.
Barbara Shand, L.M.
Sue Slaughter, L.M.C***
Dorothy Swan Lent
Mary Clifton Tabb George

1914— $73.00— 33%

Agent: Grace Callan Bond

Elizabeth Aiidcrson Kirkpatrick
Julia Bcvillc Yerkes*
Erna Driver Anderson
Eleanor Fumian Hudgens
Serena Motter Schell
Rebecca Patton, L.M.
Alice Swain Zell. L.M.C
Doris Thompson Reeves
Henrietta Washburn, L.M.C**

1915— $71.00— 27%

Agent: Anna Wills Reed

Lelia Pew Preston*
Clare Erek Fletcher, L.M.
Rosalia Feder Sarbey
Margaret Grant. L.M.
Kathleen Hodge May, L.M.
Helen MeCary Ballard
Helen Pennock Jewitt, L.M.
Frances Pennypacker, L.M.C"*
Hilel Red

Anne Roberts Balfour
Anne Sehutte Nolt. L.M.C*
Emmy Thomas Tbomasson, L.M.
Louise P. Weisiger
Anna Wills Reed*

1916— $334.00— 55%

Agent: Antoinette Camp Hagood

Margaret Banister

Louise Bennett Lord

Helen Beyv Hamilton

Antoinette Camp Hagood

Alice Dick Webster

Margaret Eckart

Rachel Forbush Wood, L.M.C

Ellen Howison Christian

Marjorie Johnso7i Good

Dorys McConnell Faile

Grace Minor

Maria NcviUe Brown

Felicia Patton. L.M.C.

Mary i'ennijfiaeker Davis**

Edna Rigg Brown*

Constance Russell Chamberlain

Rebecca Stout Hoover

Lucy Taliaferro

1917— $137.00— 57%

Agent: Rachel Lloyd Holton

Faye Abraham Pethick

Mary Bissell Ridler***

Edith Christie Finlay

Henrietta Crump Harrison, L.M.

Dorothy Grammer Croyder***

Jane Henderson

Rachel rj.t^yd Holton. L.M.C

Ruth Mrllravy Logan. L.M.C*

Elsie Palmar Parkhurst*

Bertha Pjister Waiies***

Gertrude Piper Skillern

Hazel Roberts Peck

Inez Skillern Reller

Genie Steele Hardv

Jane Tyler Griffith*

Mary Whitehead Van Hyning

Bessie Whittet Towsen

1918— $284.00— 68%

Agent: Vivienne Barkalow
Horn beck
Vivienne Barkalow Hornbeck***
Ruth Bocttc.her Robertson
Iloe Bowers Joel
Priscilla Brown Caldwell
Cornelia Carroll Gardner, L.M.C-*
Louise Case McGuire*
Amy Elliot Jose, L.M.C
Gladys GHUland Brumback*
Cilia GuggenheimcT Nusbaum*
Dorothy Harrison
Gertrude Kintzing Wiltshire
Elizabeth Lowman Hall, L.M.C
Grace MaeBain Ladds
Catherine Marshall Shuler, L.M.C.
Marianne Martin
Margaret McCluer
Margaret McVey. L.M.C
Charlotte More Meloney
Mary Reed. L.M.C.
Bessie Sims

Eleanor Smith Walters, L.M.C
Elanette Sollitt Marks
Helen Taylar Caton
Esther Turk Hemmings
Elizabeth Wilson

1919— $324.00— 40%

Agent: Caroline Sharpe Sanders
Henrietta Anderson, L.M.C.
Katharine Block*
Ellen Bodley Stuart
Mary DeLong McKnighl
Elizabeth Eggleston*
Nell Eikelman Hanf, L.M.
Florence Freeman Fowler, L.M.C.
Louise Hammond Skinner
Elizabeth Hodge Markgraf.

L.M.C*
Tennie Lootiey Burton
Isabel Luke Witt. L.M.C***
Mary McCaa Deal
Mildred Meek Meador
Dorothy Ncal Smith
Mai-y Jones ;V(j-o» Nelson, L.M.
Jane Byrd Ruifin Henry
Caroline Shar})c Sanders***
Carrie Taliaferro Scott
Amia Trevt'i' Cjfvoer, L.M.
Isabel Wood Holt

1920— $182.00— 27%

Agent : Isabel Webb LuflF
Tsabelle Hannah Goldsborough
Nancy Hanna. L.M.
Margaret High Norment, L.M.C**
Ruth Hulburd Brown
Geraldine Jones Lewis
Frances Kenney Lyon
Corinne Loncy Benson
Rebecca MacGeorge Bennett

NOVEMDIIR. \9^G

Helen Mnsou Smith
Ida Massif Valentine
Elmyra I'ctmt/iiarh-cr Yerkes*
Frances liaiff Wood
Dorothv Wallace. L.M.C.
Isabel Wihb Luff. L.M.C.
Dorothy WhUky Smyth
Marie iWcvtr Manz, L.M.

1921— $494.00— 42%

Agent : Rhoda Allen Worden
Rhoda AUtn Worden***
Josephine Aliaru MacMillan
Gertrude Anderson
Llizabeth Baldwin Whiteburst
Madeline Bigger
Russe Blanks Butts
Julia Bruver Andrews
Elizabeth Cole. L.M.
Catherine Cordis Kline
Florence Dowden Wood, L.M.C.
Edith DurrcU Marshall. L.M.C.**
Mildred E!tis Scales
Frances Evans iv«.s
Ruth GctT Boice, L.M.C.
Fredericka Hack-viau Maxwell*
Catherine Hanitch***
Florence Iras Hathaway*
Marion \'orth Lewin
Gertrude I'auly Crawford
Shelley Rouse Aagensen, L.M.C.
Maynette Rozellc Stephenson*
Marion Shafcr Wadhams
Madelon Sliidier Olney
Orphelia Short Seward**
Frances Shnpson Cartwrigh-t,

L.M.C.
Ruth Simpson Carrington
Gertrude Thams. L.M.C.
Laura Thompsou MacMillan
Miriam Thompson Winne
Hattie Wilson Diggs
Florence Woelfel, L.M.C.

1922— $576.22— 31%

Agent : Ruth Fiske Steegar

Alice Babcock Simons

Julia Bcnner Moss

Marjorie Bergen Cohee

Lorraine Bowles Chrisman

Selma Brandt Krtss*

Helen Case Carroll

Catherine Cook l.n nxemoriami

Gertrude Dally Massie***

Burd Dickson Stevenson

Louise Evans Shideler

Ruth Fiske Steegar*

Margaret Garry Reading

Mary J. ffackmati Cohill

Ruth Hauler McDonald

Katherine Hartt

Helen Hodgskin Fingerhuth

Mary Klutnph Watson

Helen Leggctt Corbett, L.M.

Virginia Little

Margaret Marston Tillar, L.M.C.

Ethel McClain Bumbaugh

Margaret Mierke Rossiter

(tti mcmoriam)
Katherine Minor Montague
Aline Morton Burt
Mary Munson

Elizabeth Murray Widau, L.M.C.
Beulah Norris. L.M.C.**
Katherine Shenehon Child*
Grizzelle Thomson***
Ruth Ulland Todd*
Marion Walker Neidlinger**
Hathaway Wright Rinehart

1923— $369.00— 36%

Agent: Jane Guignard Curry

Ellen Brown Nichols

Beatrice Bryant Woodhead

Margaret Burwell Graves, L.M.C

Helen Cannon Hills

Dorothy Copeland Parkhurst

Emma Crockett Owen

Dorothy Ellis Worley*

Lillian Everett Blake

Mildred Featherston

Helen Fossum Davidson*

Helen Gaus*

Gertrude Geer Bassett. L.M.C.

Jane Guignard Curry

Florine Guilbert Smith

May Jennings Sh-erman**

Hannah Keith Howze

Fitzallen Kendall Fearing*

Marie KIooz. L.M.

Mary LaBoitcaux Dunbar

Frances Lauterbach*

Mildred LaVenture McKinney*

Jane Lee Best
LaVern McGee Olney
Richie McGuire Boyd
Helen McMahon***
Catherine Meade MontgomeiT
Edith Miller McClintock
Marjorie MiUigait Bassett
Lou.sa Newkirk Steeble. L.M.C.
Dorothy Nickelson Williamson
Margaret Nixoyi Farrar, L.M.
Phyllis I'ayne Gathright*
Lydia I'urcell Wilmer**
Martha liobcrtsoyi Harless*
Frances Smith Hood
Virginia Stanherry Schneider
Elizabeth- Taylor Valentine,

L.M.C.
Helen Taylor***
Elizabeth Thigpen Hill***
Virginia Thojnpson McElwee
Isabel Virdeti Faulkner
Lorna Weber Dowling***
Katherine Weiser Ekeland
Margaret Wise O'Neal
Katherine Zeiich Forster***
Helen Ziclsdorf Beuscher, L.M.

1924— $447.00— 40%

Agent: Mary Rich Robertson

Frederica Bernhard. L.M.
Florence Bodine Mountcastle
Marie Brede Zimmerman
Willetta Dolle Murrin, L.M.
Ruth DurrcU Ryan, L.M.
Genevieve Elstun Moodey
Byrd Fiery Bomar
Susan Fitchett***
Caroline Flynn Eley
Jacqueline Franke Charles
Ethel Ga.nes Bruner
Jean Grant Taylor, L.M.C.
Helen Grill. L.M.
Marian Grimes Collins
Eiizabeth Guy Tranter**
Mary Harman White
Eleanor Harncd Arp, L.M.C.**
Bernice Hulburd Wain
Harrell James Carrington
Emily Jeffrey Williams***
Lydia Kimball Maxam
Kathrvn Klumph McGuire

L.M.C.**
Eloise LcGrand Council
Martha Lobingier Lusk
Muriel MacLeod Searby
Mary Marshall Hobson
Lorraine MeGrillis Stott
Josephine von Maur Crampton*
Grace Merrick Twohy***
Dorothy Meyers Rixey, L.M.
Marv Millard Webb
Phyllis Millinger Camp, L.M.
Mary Mitchell Stackhouse
Hellen Mowry Fell
Frances A'as/i Orand*
Margaret Nelson Lloyd, L.M.C.
Elizabeth Pape Mereur
Helen Rhodes Gulick, L.M.
Mary Rich Robertson**
Thomasine Rose Maury
Eleanor Sikcs Peters
Susan Simrall Logan
Mary Stephens Henderson
Cornelia Skinner Seay
Elizabeth Studley Kirkpatrick
Marion Swannell Wright
Gladys Woodward Hubbard

1925— $544.00— 31%

Agent: Ruth Taylor Franklin
Helen Bane Davis
Jane Becker Clippinger
Mary Dowds Houck
Muriel Fossu7n Pesek
Clara Belle Frank Bradley**
Ruth Gates LeVee
Eugenia Goodall Ivey
Dorothy Herbison Hawkins
Cordelia Kirkendall Barricks***
Elizabeth Manniyig Wade
Elizabeth MacQueen Nelson
Margaret Masters Klauder
Gertrude McGiffert MacLennan,

L.M.
Martha McHenry Halter*
lone McKenzie Walker
Margaret Meals Ewart
Eleanor Miller Patterson***
Mary Nadine Pope Phillips***
Evelyn Prctlow Rutiedge
Mary Reed Hartshorn
Mary Sailer Gardiner
Romayne Sehooley Ferenbach

Virginia Stanberry Schneider

Mary Irene Sturgis**

Ruth Taylo-r Franklin

Helen Tremaytn Spahr

Mary Elizabeth Welch Hemphill*

1926— $1,538.05— 32%

Agent : Lois Peterson Wilson

Ruth Abell Bear
Nell Atkins Hagemeyer*
Martha Bachman McCoy
Dorothy Bailey Hughes, L.M.C*
Anne Barrett Allaire**
Kitty Blount Andersen. L.M.C.**
Mary Bristol Graham, L.M.C.
Mary Brown Moore
Anne Claiborne Willingham
Martha Close Page, L.M.
Gertrude Collins Calnan
Page Dunlap Dee
Helen Dunleavy Mitchell*
Frances Dunlop Heiskell
Gudrun Eskcsen Chase*
Katherine Farrand Elder
Mildred Gribble Seller
Dorothy Hamilton Davis***
Helen Haseltine
Jeanette Hopptnger Schanz*
Daisy Huffman Pomeroy
Wanda Jensch Harris, L.M.
Ruth Johnston Bowen
Dorothy Keller Iltff***
Mary Kerr Burton
Margaret Krider Ivey, L.M.
Margaret Laidley Smith
Edna Lee Gilchri-st***
Mildred Lovett Matthews*
Virginia Mack Senter, L.M.
Elizabeth Matthew Nichols
Sarah Merrick Houriet
Elizabeth Moore Rusk, L.M.
Helen Mutsehler Becker**
Henrietta Nelsoji Weston
Ellen Newell Bryan**
Katharyn Norris Kelley, L.M.C*
Lois Peterson Wilson*
Katbryn Peyton Moore
Margaret Posey Brubaker
Catherine Shulenberger, L.M.
Virginia Lee Taylor Tinker
Marion Van Cott Borg*
Cornelia Waihs Wailes*
Margaret White Knobloch**
Ruth Will Beekh

1927— $1,240.63— 42%

Agent: Daphne Bunting Blair

Maud Adams Smith**
Eleanor Alhers Foltz
Camilla Alsop Hyde*
Evelyn Anderson Tull, L.M.
Anne Ashhurst Gwathmey
Jeanette Boone***
Laura Boy/iton Raw^lings
Madeline Brown Wood*
Daphne Bunting Blair**
Elizabeth Gates Wall*
Mary Close Gleason
Caroline Compton*
Elizabeth Cox Johnson
Margaret Cramer Crane*
Virginia Davies Nettles
Esther Dickinson Robbins
Margaret Eaton Murphy, L.M.
Alice Eskesen Ganzel
Elsetta Gilchrist Barnes, L.M.
Emilie Halsell Marston*
Claire Hanner Arnold**
Hilda Harpster
Gwinn Harris Tucker
Sarah- L. Jamison*
Catherine Johnson Brehme
Emily Jones Hodge
Margaret Leigh Hobbs
Margaret Lovett
Ruth Lowrance Street, L.M.C.
Elizabeth Luck Hammond
Rebecca Manning Cutler
Elisabeth Mathews Wallace*
Elizabeth Miller Allan
Elise Morley Fink, L.M.C***
Pauline Payne Backus
Vivian Plumb Palmer
Margaret Powell Oldham
Elva Quisenberry Marks*
Julia Reyriolds Dreisbach**
Jane Riddle Thornton***
Frances Sample
Florence Shortau Poland*
Yenti Slater Shelby. L.M.
Helen Smyser Talbott
Jo Snoivden Durham*
Virginia Stephenson

Nar Warren Taylor***
Marian V. Thayer
Constance Van Ness*
Julia Ventulett Pattei-son
Mary Vizard Kelly
Sara Von Schilling Stanley
Margaret WUlimns Bayne
Virginia Wilson Robbins*

1928— $475.00— 37%
Agent : Marion Jayne Berguido
Helen Adams Martin
Betty Austin Kinloch-
Adaline Beeson
Eleanor Branch Cornell
Dorothy Bunting
Evelyn Claybrook Bowie
Louise Conklin Knowles
Elizabeth Corpcning Andrews
Elizabeth Crane Hall*
Sarah Dance Krook
Helen Davis Mcllrath
Harriet Dunlap Towill
Sarah Everett Toy
Elizabeth Failing Bernhard
Margaret Fuller Riggs
Connie Furmcin Westbrook
UJlizabeth Harms Slaughter
Louise Harned Ross*
Virginia Hippie Baugher
Marguerite Hodnett McDaniel
Elizabeth Jackson Pierce
Marion Jaijne Berguido
Susan Jelley Dunbar
Elizabeth Jones Shands
Helen Keys Rollow
Katherine Leadbcater Bloomer*
Sara McHcnry Crouse
Katheryn Meyer Manch-el
Betty Moore Schilling*
Virginia Morris Kincaid
Mary NelTns Locke**
Ann Newell Whatley
Elizabeth Prcscott Balch
Anne Beth Price Clark
Elizabeth Robins Foster***
Anne Shepherd Lewis***
Grace Sollitt

Grace Sunderland Owings*
Virginia Torrance Zimmer
Virginia Van Winkle Morlidge**
Jocelyn Watson Regen***
Mary Alice Webb Nesbitt
Fanny Welch Paul
Lillian Lee Wood

1929— $757.00— 38%

Agent: Dorothy Joli£fe Umer

Nora Lee Antrim***

Mary Armstrong Allen

Elizabeth Arnold Wright

Evelyn Ballard**

Milo Bates Crawford

Mary Archer Bean Eppes***

Mallie Bomar Johnson

Mildred Bronaugh Taylor

Mildred Bushcy Scherr

Ellen Blake**

Dorothy Bortz Davis

.A.nne Brent Winn

Belle Brockenbrougli Hutchins***

Janet Bruce Bailey

Elizabeth Bryan Stockton

Lucille Burks Hopkins

Sara Callison Jamison

Virginia Lee Campbell Clinch

Virginia Chaffee Gwynn

Louise Chapman Plamp

Kate Tappen Cot-***

Mai-y Copeland Sturgeon

Louise Dailey Sturhahn

Meredith Ferguson Smythe***

Emilie Glesc Martin***

Mary Gochnatter Dalton

Lisa Gnigon Shinberger***

Margaret Harding Kelley

Gary Harman Biggs

Elizabeth Hilton

Mary Hodges Edmunds

Virginia Hodgson SutlitT

Amelia Hollis Scott

Claire Hoyt Gaver

Dorothy Joliff'e LTrner

Martha Dabney Jones*

Josephine Kluttz Ruffin*

Barbara Lewis Howard

Mildred Earle Lewis Adkins

Martha Maupin Stewart

Polly McDiarmid Serodino**

Sally McKee Stanger

Gertrude Prior***

Almniiae News

Frances Redford*

Adelaide liirhardson Hanger***

Helen Srli<iumlrflcl Ferree

Mary Shrlft^n Clark*

Nathalie Sithnan Smith

Josephine Tatman Mason

Eugenie Tillman McKenzit

Anna Torian Owens***

Su Tucker Yates

Esther TyltT Campbell***

Elizabeth VaUiUiJu- Cioodwyn

Helen liV'f'UniOH Bailey

Jane Wilkinson Banyard***

Huldah Williams Lambert

Julia Wilson

Amelia iWfodtrard Davier

Cecil W'oodiiard Hooten

1930— $619.00— 35%

Agent : Carolyn Martindale Blouin

Josephine Abcrncthy Turrentine
Serena Ailf.t Henry*
Jane Hakvr Davidson
Eleanor Hrooks Sloan
Mary liurks Saltz
Jane CfUlison Smith
Elizabeth Carnes
Delmar Chatnbtrs Glazier
Elizabeth Cofuland Norfleet**
Merry Curtis Loving
Sophia Ihnilai) Hunter
Lucy Fi»hburuv Davis
Fanny Penn Ford Libby
Elizabeth Foster Askew, L.M.
Gratia Gnr Howe
Elizabeth Gorsline
Frances Harrison McGiffert
Ruth Hasson Smith-
Eleanor Henderson Merry
Mary Huntington Harrison***
Evelyn Jackson Blackstock
Alice Jones Muldaur
Alice Tucker Jones Taylor
Martha Lambeth Kilgore
Virginia LeHardy Bell
Boyce Lokry Martin
Mary Douglas Lyon Althouse
Myra Marshall Brush
Elizabeth Marston Creech**
Carolyn Martindale Blouin***
Susan McAllister. L.M.
Elizabeth MeCrady Bardwell
Lucy Miller Baber
Ida Moore Taylor
Mai->' Moss Powell
Merritt Murpiiey Green
Gwendolyn Oleott Writer
Lindsay Prentis Woodroofe
Wilhelmina Rankin Teter
Sally Reahard
Josephine Rcid Stubbs
Emma Riely Lemaire
Norvell Royer Orgain*
Elizabeth Saunders Ramsay
Jean Saunders
Lucy Shirley Otis*
Helen Smith Miller
Marjorie Sturges Moose*
Elizabeth Stevenson Tate
Mildred Stone Green*
Phyrne Tanner McKennan
Evelyn Ware Saunders
Gladys Wester Horton***
Elizabeth Williams Gilmore**
Mary Woodivorth Wilkin

1931— $522.60— 35%

Agent: Marjorie Webb Marynov

Violet Anderson Groll
Eda Bainbridge McKnight
Martha von Briesen***
Isabel Rush Thomasson
EHzabeth Clark
Agnes Cleveland Sandifer
Jean Cole Anderson
Nancy Hancock Coe***
Virginia Cooke Rea**
Jean Coutttryman Presba**
Virginia Derby Howse
Naomi Doty Stead**
Margaret Fry Williams
Josephine Gibbs Du Bois
Nancy Hunter
Margaret Hurd Burbank
Sarah Jester Rust
Madame Johnson. Honorar>*
Matilda Jonea Shillington***
Charlotte Kent Pinckney
Virginia Keyser
Margaret Lee Thompson
Gertrude Leiris Magavern
Elizabeth MacRae Goddard*
Martha McHroom Shipman***
Caroline Moore McCotter

Jane Muhlherg HaKerstadt
Evelyn Mullen
Fanny O'lirian Hettrick
Mary I'earsall Smith
Jean I'loehn Wernentin
Virginia Quintard Bond*
Natalie Roberts Foster***
Phoebe Rowe Peters
Ruth Sehott Benner*
Dorothy Sedgwick
Helen Sim Mellen***
Polly Su-ift Calhoun***
Virginia Tahh Moore
Martha Tillery Thomas*
Marjorie Webb Maryanov***
Peronne Whittaker Scott
Ella Williams Fauber
June Williams
Pauline Woodieard Hill
Nancy Worthing ton**

1932— $506.50— 33%

Agent: Susan Marshall Timberlake

Virginia Hellamy Ruflfin***
Margaret liennett Cullum
Sue Harnett Davis*
Courtney Cochran Ticer
Alice Dabney Parker***
Elizabeth Douglass Foote
Elisabeth Donghtie Bethea
Virginia Finch Waller**
Eleanor Franke Crawford
Susanne Gay Linville
Mildred Gibbons***
Virginia Hall Lindley
Lenore Hancel Sturdy*
Sarah' Harrison Merrill
Elizabeth Hun McAllen*
Ruth Kerr Fortune***
Anne MacRae
Charlotte Magoffin**

Katherine Gochnauer Slater
Sue Graves Stubbs*
Elizabeth Stuart Gray**
Margery Gubelman Hastert*
Julia Harris Toomey
Mabel Hickman Flaitz
Emma Hills Boyd*
Sara Houstt/n Baker
Kathrina Hoieze Maclellan
Eleanor Hiidgins Keith
Margaret Imbrie
Mary Imbrie
Ella Jesse I.iatham**
Susan Johnson Simpson*
Lena Jones Craig
Margaret Lanier Woodrum
(ieraldine Mallory***
Helen Martin***
Anne Marvin***
Elizabeth Vann Moore
Lucy Moulthrop Alexander
Cornelia Murray Weller
Frances Neville Newberry
Kath-erine Oglesby Mixson
Mary Kate I'atton Bromfield
Frances I'oirell Zoppa***
Marjorie Ris Hand
Mary Bess Roberts Waynick
Josephine Rucker Powell*
Jeanette Shambaugh Stein
Gotten Skinner Shepherd*
Nancy Slaugenhoupt Montgomery
Charlotte Tamblyn Tufts
Constance Turner Hoffman
Jean Van Home Baber***
Lelia Va7i Leer Schwaab
Virginia Vesey Woodward***
Langhorne Watts Austen
Margaret Wayland Taylor*
Hetty Wells Finn

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Please clip and send any newspaper items con-
cerning Sweet Briar College or Sweet Briar
alumnae to the Alumnae Office. Be sure the
date and name of the paper is attached. This
will be very helpful to both the Alumnae
Office and the Office of Public Relations.

Susan Marshall Timberlake
Marion Malm Fowler
Letha Morris Wood***
Barbara Munter Purdue***
Helen Nightingale Gieason**
Mary Moore Faneakc Mandeville
Marcia Patterson***
Sarah Phillips Crenshaw*
Helen Pratt Graff*
Edith Railey Dabney
Ruth Remon Wenzel
Katherine Scott Soles
Frances Sencivd.ver Stewart*
Sara Shallenberger Brown*
Adelaide Smith Nelson
Theda Sherman Newlin*
Doroth-y STnith Berkeley*
Virginia Squibb Flynn***
Hazel Stamp Collins
Beatrice Stone DeVore
Hildegarde Voeleker Hardy
Alice Weymouth McCord*

1933— $547.50— 33%

Agent: Geraldine Mallory

Virginia Alford Johnston*

Margaret Austin Johnson*

Lois Ballenger, Honorary

Susalee Reiner Norris

Dorothy Rrett Prentiss

Anne Brooke

Mary Buick***

Marjorie Rurford Crenshaw

Mary Elizabeth Clcmo-ns Porzelius*

Jessie Coburit Laukhuff

Doris C'rnnr Loveland**

Elizabeth Dawson Birch

Marietta Derby Garst

Elena Doty Angus*

Lois Foster Moore

1934— $727.50— 35%

Agent: Betty Suttle Briscoe

Eleanor Aleott Bromley***

Dorothy Andreies Kramer*

Anne Armstrong Allen

Ruberta Bailey Hesseltine*

Helen Rean Emery

Elizabeth Bond Wood*

Connie Rurwell White

Nancy Rutzner Leavell

Elizabeth Car^r Clark*

Eleanor Cooke Esterly*'*

Anne Corbitt Little*

Julia Daugherty Musser

Amy Da vies

Louise Dreyer Bradley

Emily Emory Leary*

Elizabeth Eskridge Ambler

Virginia Fosler Gruen**

Rosemary Frey Rogers***

Elsa Gerstacker Alien

Lydia Goodicyn Ferrell***

Louise Greenwood Lippitt

Marion Gwaltney Hall

Frances Hallett Denton

Thelma Hnnifm Fried*

Helen Hanson Bamford***

Julia Harris Toomey

Mai->' Higgins Porsche

Nancy Hotchkiss Boschen

Dorothy Hutchinson Howe*

Marjorie Lanar Hurd***

Martha Lou Lemmon Stohlman***

Marie LePine

Dearing Lewis

Emily Marsh Nichols*

Elizabeth Mayfield Chapman

Katherine Means Neely

Mary Moore Rowe**

Marcia Morrison Curtis*

Mai*>- Moses Lindsey*
Priscilla Mullen Gowan
Ruth Myers Pleasants*
Margaret Newton*
Cordelia Penn Cannon*
Dorothy Prince Oldfield
Mary Pringle*
Margaret Ross Ellice
Julia Sadler de Coligny***
Cleo Seott Allen
Elizabeth Sehruer Maxwell***
Julia Shirley Patterson
Jean Spraguc Hulvey***
Marguerite Stephens Sheridan*
Betty SuttU- Briscoe***
Marjorie Van Ei^era Lovelace
Katharine WiUiams McCoUum
Bonnie Wood Stookey***

1935— $631.50—35%

Agent: Anne Baker Gerhart

Ray Adler Cochran

Isabel Anderson Comer**

Anne Baker Gerhart

Dorothy Harnum Venter**

Barbara Renzinger Lindsley

Jane Bryan Hurlbert

Allyn Capron Heintz*

Florence Crane Cloodfellow

Geneva Grossman Stevens***

Margharita Curtze Vicary

Virginia Cunningham Brookes

Jessie Davis Hall

Mary Dunglinson Day*

Hester Catherine England

Gretchen Geib Troup

Margaret Glover Paddock***

Harriet Haddock Dudley

Juliet Halliburton Burnett***

Beverley HiU Furniss***

Rebekah Huber*

Helen Jaekson Hagan

Elizabeth Johnston Clute***

Blandina Jones Skilton

Martha Jones Betts

Elizabeth Klinedinst McGavran*

Hester Kraemer Avery

Grace Langeler Irvine

Alice Laubach***

Jane Lawder*

Jane Littleford Stegeman

Lee MacPherson Virgin

Mary Virginia Marks***

Alice MeCloskey Schlendorf***

Sarah MUhr Adelman

Evelyn Morris Blair

Frances Morrison Ruddell*

Elizabeth Myers Harding

Martha Netinsch wander Founds

Charlotte Olmstead Gill

Julia Peterkin***

Ellen Pratt McGowin

Sarah Rick Putnam

Margaret Rose Turnbull

Ellen Scattergood Zook

Isabel Scriba

Frances SpHler Merrill*

Jacquelyn Strickland Dwelle***

Natalae Strickland Waters

Ann Temple Benton

Lida Voigt Young***

Marion Walker Alcaro

Mary Whipple Clark

Harriet Williams Rand

Maud Winboryie Leigh**

Helen Wolcott***

Rebecca ^'ou}ig Frazer***

1936— $579.00— 37%

Agent: Lillian Cabell Gay

Frances Baker Owen
Elise Rowen Mullins
Nancy Rrasietll Holderness
Lillian Cabell Gay***
Mary Virginia Camp Smith***
Margaret Campbell Usher***
Myra Carr Baldwin
Elizabeth Cocke Winfree
Kathleen Donahue McCormack
Corinne Fejttress Gray
Chloe Frierson Fort
Caroline Furniss Wolfe
Ruth Gilliam Viar
Parker Goodwin Breen
Frances Gregory***
Capel Grimes Gerlach**
Martha Harvey Gwinn
Mary Hesson Pettyjohn
Sarah High Gregg
Mary Himrs Beddoes
Orissa Holdev Perry
Margaret Huxley Dick*
Margaret Lloyd Bush
Alma Martin Rotnem*

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Dorothea McClure Mountain
Catherine Mitchelt Ravenscroft***
Jane Moore Johnson*
Elizabeth Morton Forsyth
Katherine x\iUs Parker***
Esther O'Brian Robinson
Nancy Parsons Jones
Elizabeth P.nkcrtoii Scott***
Mary Lee Poindcxter Willingham
Marquart Powell Doty
Mary Rich Wiles
Margaret Robertson Densmore
Ruth Robhison Madison*
Virginia Rutty Anstice
Jane Sheltou Williams***
Margaret Smith Thomasson*
Mar>' Stokes Fulton
Carol Straus Ney
Aline Stumjj Fisher*
Arnold Susong Jones
Willetta Thompson Scofield
Margaret Upton White
Elizabeth Wall Saunders
Constance Warnrr McElbinney
Lydia Warner McKinney
Martha Williams Tim**
Carrie Yoinig Gilchrist

1937— $436.50 — 18%

Agent: Rosalie Hall Cramer

Elizabeth Bali Fensom
Janet Bogue Trimble*
Elizabeth Boyre Emmons
Mary Jane Carney Turner
Anna Mary Charles Straub
Martha L. Clark
Jacquelin Cochran Nicholson
Mai'garet Cornicell Schmidt*
Agnes Crawford Bates***
Margery Cruikshank Dyer
Rebecca Douglass Mapp**
Harriette Dyer Sorenson
Mary Helen Frueauff Klein***
Mary Gruber Stoddart
Rosalie Hall Cramer
Virginia Hardin**
Margaret Harris Clark
Margaret Holcomb MacMillan
Natalie Hopkins Griggs
Barbara Jarvis*
Frances Johnson Finley*
Barbara Kirch Booth*
Sara Kirkpatriek Fearing
Lillian L. Lambert Pennington**
Polly Lambeth Blackwell
Anne Launian Bussey**
Elizabeth Lee McPhail**
Elliott Lewis

Margaret MacRae Jackson*
Margaret Merritt Haskell**
Barbara Munn Green**
Nancy Nalle Lea**
Kitty O'Brien Joyner*
Isabel Olnistcad Haynes
Dorothy Price Roberts*
Dorothy Prout Gorsuch*
Anna Redfern Ferguson
Helen Rae Wainwright
Vera Searcy McGonigle
Harriet Shaw McCurdy
Elizabeth Sherk Prince
Ellen Snodgrass Park**
Dorothy Stewart**
Marie Walker Gregory**
Elinor Ward Francis
Helen Williamson Dumont**

1938— $593.00— 43%

Agent: Moselle Worsley Fletcher

Cornelia Armficld Cannon
Frances Bailey Brooke*
Louise Bailey McDermott*
Jane Bcmis Wills
Mary Alice Berckmans Smith
Ethlyn Biedenharn Swayze
Elizabeth Boicley Phillips
Imogene Brock Hawley
Marian Brown Zaiser**
Mary Cobb Hulse*
Hannah Cobden Merrill
Frances Cordcs Hoffman**
Harriet Daniel Herd**
Barbara Derr Chenoweth**
Denise duPont Zapffe
Virginia Eady Williams**
Dorothy Evans Haveron
Frances Faulkner Matthews**
Barbara Fish Schiebel**
Janet Forbush Fead
Bessie Lee Garbee Siegrist**
Dorothy Gipe Clement**
Louisa Grace Prince
Lucile Greene Michel
Jane Gregory Marrow

Claire Handerson Chapin
Josephine Happ Willingham**
Helen Hays Crowley**
Helen Hcsson Binns
Elizabeth Hopper Turner
Katherine Hoyt**
Cecily Jansen Kendrick
Adele Letcher Harvey**
Howell Lykes Colton**
Genevieve Marsh Fisher
Marion Martyn Zimmerman**
Nancy McCandlish Prichard
Marjorie Miller Hein*
Betty Moore Stowers
Vesta Murray Haselden
Dorothy Nicholson Tate
Ruth Pfingstcn Polster
Lucile Seargeant Leonard**
Pollyanna Shotwell Holloway*
Kate Sulzberger Levi
Molly Talcott Dodson**
Marjorie Thaden Davis*
Mary Thompson Fabbrini
Dorotby Tison Campbell
Ida Todman Pierce*
Sarah Tomiinson Foscue**
Jane Townsend Herlihy
Maud Tucker Drane**
Wiley na U pshaw Kennedy
Annie R. Wallace Buchman
Anne Walker Newton
Margaret Weimcr Shepherd
Janice Wiley Adams**
Elinor Wilson Gammon
Lucy Robb Wiiiston Works
Pauline Womack Swan
Moselle Worsley Fletcher

1939_$800.50— 47%

Agents: Mary Elizabeth Barge

Shroder and

Sarah Belk Gambrell

Florence Bailey Adams

Margaret Ballard Whitehurst

Patricia Balz Vincent*

Mary Elizabeth Barge Schroder**

Sarah Belk Gambrell**

Bettine Bell Wyman

Anne Benedict Swain

Leha Bond Preston*

Katharine Bonsall Strong

Lucy Bowers Elebash

Betsy Campbell Gawthrop

Eleanor Claflin Williams

Virginia Cheatham Newton

Hylah Coley Kitcbell

Henrietta Collier Armstrong**

Louise Corrigan Jordan*

Elsie Day Sutherlin

Eudoxa D.ngman Cobb*

Charlotte Dunn Blair

Betsy Durham Goodhue

Anna Espach Weckler

Martha Foivler McNabb

Betty Frazier Rinehart

Nancy Gatch Svien

Lucy Gordon Jeffers*

Valeria Gott Murphey

Ruth Harman Keiser**

Anne Lee Harrison Brown

Martha Hodill Smith**

Anne HuddUston Cheek

Viola James Wathen

Mai-y Judd Patton

Catherine Lawder Stephenson

Yvonne Leggett Dyer**

Lottie Lewis Woollen*

Eleanor Little Morfit**

Elizabeth Howell Love

Gracey Luckett Stoddard

Mary Mackintosh Sherer**

Marion Mann Hawkes

Helen McCrcery James

Lee Montague Joachim**

Marguerite Myers Glenn

Lillian Neely Willis

Jean Oliver Sartor*

Jane Parker Washburn**

Ann Parks*

Elizabeth Perklyis Prothro*

Katherine Richards deLancey

Julia Ridgely Peacock*

Gertrude Robertson Midlen**

Grace Rohinsoii McGuire

Augusta Saul Edwards**

Julia Saunders Michaux

Audrey Siebert Synder

Lillian Smith

Mary Louise Simpson Bulkley**

Mary Spear Rooney

Florence Swift Durrance**

Janet Thorpe

Phyllis Todd Ellis**

Mary Treadivay Downs*
Janet Trosch*
Eleanor Wallace Price
Mary Jeffery Welles Pearson
Virginia Welljord Farnwell
Bennett Wilcox Bartlett
Betty Williams Allison
Julia Wurthington Lombard

1940— $533.00— 46%

Agent: Hortense Powell Cooper

Ann Adamson Taylor
Mai'y Frances Barnhardt Clader
Muriel Barrows Neall
Eleanor Bosworth Spitler
Adelaide Boze Glascock**
Anne Burr McDermott
Maria Burroughs Livingston
Mariana Bush King
Clara Call Frazier*
Dorothy Campbell O'Connor
Ann Cauthorn
Cornelia Chalkley Kittler*
Elizabeth Conover
Helen Corn well Jones*
Connie Currie Fleming*
Elizabeth Dershuck Gay
Laura Dickie Neil*
Margaret Dowell Cochran*
Katherine Estcs Johnston
Lois Fernlcy McNeil
Emory Gill Williams
Elizabeth Gockley McLellan
Barbara Godfrey*
Jane Goodrich Murrell
Jeanne Harris
Nancy Haskins Elliot
Georgia Herbert Hart
Katherine Hodge Soaper
Elizabeth Ivins Haskins*
Ethel James Milburn
Mary Petty Johnston Bedell*
Margaret Katterjohn McCollom
Mai-y Sue Kilham Davis
Cecilia MacKinnon Ballard
Clara MacRae Causey**
Sarah Mayo Sohn
Ruth Mealand Schwartz
Bettv Jane Mencfee Abrens
Mildred Mitchell Gillis
Sari Mitchell Clingerman
Mildred Moon Montague
Frances Mosis Bransford
Shirley Nalley Irving
Cynthia Noland Young*
Helen Patton Wright
Marion Phinizy Jones*
Hortense Powell Cooper
Louise Pugh Worthing
Margaret Royall Davis**
Janet Runkle Wells*
Helen Sehmid Hardy**
Jacqueline Sexton Daley
Barbara Jane Smith Whitlock
Reba Smith Gromel*
Eleanor Snoic Lea**
Agnes Si)enc€r Burke*
Marjorie Stock Clemens
Helen Taylor
Josephine Taylor Carlson
Beth Thomas Mason**
Nida Tomlin Watts
Margaret Anne Vallance*
Elizabeth Vanderbilt Brown
Irene Vongehr Vincent
Kathleen Ward Allen
Anne Waring Lane
Evelyn Williams TurnbuU

1941— $630.00— 40%

Agent: Betty Doucett Neil!

Doris Albray Barduscb*
Margaret Anderton Dortch
Allen Bagby MacNeil*
Frances Baldwin Whitaker*
Anne Borough O'Connor
Lillian Breedlove White
Martha Jean Brooks Miller
Elizabeth Brown-Shermayi MacRae
Evelyn Cantey Marion**
Betty Cardamone O'Donnell*
Helen Carmine Thompson
Wilma Cavett Bird*
Barbara Clark Dickey
Jane Clark Hartrick
Elizabeth Colley Shelton
Margaret Craighill Price**
Marion Dail-ey Avery
Charlotte Davenport Tuttle
Shirley Devine Clemens**
Joan DcVore Roth*
Adela Diaz Eads
Betty Doucett Neill**

Bette Fawcett Collier

Marie Gafjney Barry*

Anne Gayle O'Beirne

Margaret Gilchrist Livingston

Decca Gilmer Frackelton*

Ethel Gurncy Betz

Helen Gwinn Wallace

Cynthia Harrison Drinkwater

Ruth Hemphill DeHuys

Emory Hill Rex**

Julia Hoebcr Condit

liarbara Holman Whitcomb**

Betty Irvine Phillips

Louise Kirk Headley*'

Louise Lembeck Reydel**

Helen Littleton Hauselein**

Lucy Lloyd**

Jane Loveland Byerts**

Anita Loving Lewis

Joan Meacham Gay

Betty Joe MeNarney Williams**

Alice Mtrds Flaherty

Mai-y Henri Sorman Pollock

Mai-y Scully Olney*

Shirley Shaw Daniel**

Edna Sehomakcr Packard**

Patricia Sorenson Ackard

Margaret Tomlin Graves

Betsy Tower Bennett**

Helen Watson Hill*

Marion Webb Shaw

Dorothy White Cummings**

Marianne White Southgate

Margaret Wilson Dickey

Mary Worthington Foster

Wilma Zeisler Lee*

1942— $512.93— 37%

Agent: Mary Ruth Pierson Fischer

Cyntbia Abbott Botsford
Florence Bagley Witt
Anne Barrett George*
Virginia Beasley Holzer
Mary Alice Bennett Dorrance*
Edith Brainerd Walter
Grace Bugg MuUer-Thym
Eugenia Burnett Affel*
Jeanne Buzby Runkle*
Lucy Call Dabney*
Lucy Case Wendelken
Sudie Clark Hanger*
Catherine Coleman*
Elizabeth Diggs Orr
Barbara Engh Croft
Eloise English Davies
Betsy Gilmer Tremain*
Nancy Goldbarth Glaser*
Jane Hamilton McNaughton
Betty Hanger Jones*
Shirley Hauseman Nordhem*
Ann Hauslcin Potterfield*
Jean Hedlcy Currie
Susanne Hogue Deas
Janet Houstoun Davis
Alice King Harrison*
Dorothy Malone Yates
Frances Meek Young*
Ann Morrison Reams
Marion Mundy Young
Doris Ogden Mount*
Ruth Pierson Fischer
Margaret Preston Newton
Eleanor Ringer Linn
Barbara Ripley Furniss
Gloria Sanderson Sartor
Helen Sanford*
Sally Sehall Van Allen
Phyllis Sherman Barnes*
Diana Stout Allen
Jane Taylor Lowell*
Mai-y Ellen Thompson Beach
Sally Walke Rogers
Mary Wheat Crowell
Daphne Withington Adams
Deborah Wood Davis*
Douglas Woods Sprunt

1943_$658.00— 45%

Agent: Lucy Kiker Jones

Sarah Louise Adams Bush*
Margaret Baker Kahtn*
Brooks Barnes*
Barbara BoUes Miller*
Pauline Boswell Fosdick
Barbara Briggs Quinn
Sally Bryati Allen
Dorothy Campbell Scribner*
Elizabeth Campbell Shearer*
Mai->' Carter Richardson
Mary Christian Mulligan
Katherine Z>oar Jones
Deborah Douglas Adams
Clare Eager Matthai*

Alumnae Netfs

Lynn Emerick Huklekoper
Mary Love Fcrgujton Sanders*
Janice Fitzgerald Wellons
AnnabeUe Forsch
Dorothy Friday
Frances Gregg Petersmeyer
Muriel Grymes
Camille Guyton Guething
Ruzelia Hazard Potter*
Pauline Hudson Brown
Marguerite Hume
Esther Jett Holland*
Primrose Jolti,slon Craven*
Barbara Prentiss Jotua Hale
Valerie Jones Malerne
Bonilee Key Garrett
Lucy Kiker Jones*
Betty-Potter Kinne Hillyer
Karen Kniskern White*
Mary Jane Lampton Middleton*
Helen Laivton Mitchell
Betty Leighton Lane
Fay Martin Chandler*
Elsie McCarthy Samson
Fayette McDowell Willett*
Anne McJunk n Briber*
Barbara McSeill Blessing^
Caroline Miller McClintock*
Anne Mitchell Albyn*
Karen Sorris Sibley
Anne Soyes Awtrey*
Nancy Ptngrec Drake*
Betty Braxton Preston
Phyllis Publoiv van Kriedt
Peegy Roudin Foster
Man.' Page Ruth Foster
Elizabeth Schmcisser Nelson*
Elizabeth Shepherd Scott
Virginia White
Marjorie Shugart Dennehy
Effie Siegling Bowers
Frances Simmons McConnell
Dorothy Stauber Anderson
Harriet Swenson Munschauer*
Margaret Swindell Dickerman
Fredda Turner Durham
Mary Wheeler HiUiard
Louise Woodruff Angst*
Gloria Zick Sigars

1944— S547.00 — J7%

Agent: Murrell Rickards Bowden
Muriel Ahrash Salzburg
Dorothy Bcuttell Smith
Norma Bradley Arnold
Marguerite Brendlinger Robinson
Mildred Brenizer Lucas
Helen Cantcy Woodbridge*
Janet Chenery Conway
Anna Christian Handte
Lucile Chjn'stmas Brewster*
Barbara Clark Utley
Shirley Coombs Ramsour
Helen Crump Cutler*
Dorothy Denny Sutton
Dorothy DeVore Piatt
Ellen Boyd Duval Miller*
Margaret Eggers Perry
Mimi Etheridge Wood
Martha Falk Vallery
Mildred Faulconer Br>'ant*
Hazel Fellner Tuttle
Lillian Craig Francis Morrow
Joan Gipe Lewis*
Eleanor Goodspecd Abbott
Margaret Gordon Seller
Helen Gravatt
Virginia Griffith Morton
Betty Haverty Smith*
Sloan Hawkins Ward*
Leslie Herrick Danford*
Frances Hester Dornette*
Martha Hoffman McCoy*
Sydney Holmes Bales
Anne Hynson Rump*
Mary Jarvis Cocke
Alice Lancaster Buck
Mildred Littleford Camm*
Paulette Long Taggart*
Lucy Love Elmer
Florence Loveland Swanbeck
Ann Moore Remington
Carlisle Morrissrtt Branch
Gene Fatton MacMannis
Virginia Xoyes Pillsbury*
Frances Pettit O'Hailoran*
Jane Rice McPherson
Murrell Rickards Bowden*
Marion Saunders Montgomery
Ann Seguin Britt
Marion Shanlry Jacobs*
Louise Smith Norton*
Patricia Stickney
Adeline Taylor Nunez

Phyllis Tenney Dowd
Catherine Tift Porter
Elizabeth Vaughan Bishop"
Mar>* Churchill Walker Van de

Water
Cecile Waterman Essrig
Virginia Watts Fournier*
Patricia Whitaktr Waters*
Ernestine White Murray
Emily WHkins Mason
Marjorie Willetts Maiden*
Elizabeth Williams Meyer
Jane Williams Wann
Ruth Willis Leaman
Grace Woodward Wysor

1945_$506.83

Agent: Julia Milts Jacobsen
Kathryn Agee Atkins
Lelia Barties Cheatham*
Audrey Betts*
Doreen Brugger Wetzig*
Leila Burnett Felker
Wyline Chapman Sayler*
Anna Mary Chidestcr Hey wood*
Betty Cocke Wright
Carol Cox MacKinnon
Esther Cttnnlngham Shay*
Helen Davis Woblers*
Anne Dickson Jordan
Evelyn Dillard Grones
Huldah Edens Jackson*
Alice Edwards Davenport*
Margot Enright Aghnides
Dolores Fagg Homer
Mary Kathrj-n Frye Hemphill
Isabel Gaylord Thompson*
Alice Gearhart Stinson
Edith Page Gill Breakell
Ellen Gilliam Perr>'*
Ann Gladney Gibson*
Betty Gray Gray*
Betty Grayson Geer
Mary Haskins King*
Betty Healy Cutler
Elizabeth Hicks Pollak
Martha Holton Glesser
Hilda Hude Voigt
Margaret Jones Wylie
Elizabeth Joseph Boykins*
Marjorie Koonce McGregor*
Joyce Livermore Foust
Ruth Longmire Wagner*
Jane MeJunkin Huttman
Julia Mills Jacobsen
Joanne Morgan Hartman
Alice Nicolson
Caroline Parrish Seager
Catherine Price Bass
Ann Richey Oliver*
Jean Ridler Fabrenbach*
Eugenia Seuman Spear
Mar\' Perkins Traugott Brown
Lile Tucker Bell
Anne Walker Somer\*ille
Ann Warren*
Harriet Willcox Gearhart

1946— $774^2— 62%

Agent: Lucy Jones Bendall

Rosemar>- Ashby Dashiell
Betty Ann Bass Norris*
Joan Berend Morse
Betsy Boicman Townsend
Julia Bristow

Katberine Brooks Augustine*
Dorothy Caldwell Crowell
Flora Cameron Kampmann
Jean Carter Telford
Marjorie Christian Schley
Elinor CUment Littleton*
Carrol! Cone Cozart
Carolyn Conlry Danley
Dorothy Corcoran Hartzer*
Marie Dennig Gildehaus
Beatrice Dingwell Loos*
Charlotte Dinsmoor Olin
Nancy Dowd Burton'
Ruth Drubych Zimmerman
Cornelia English Monthan
Alice Eubank
Mary Evans Landrum
Crutcher Field Harrison
Elizabeth Fruit Metzenthin
Helen L. Graeflf
Noma T. Greene Satterfietd
Patricia Grosbeck Gordon
Marilyn Hannah Crocker
Anne Hill Edwards*
Mary Holland Hardin
Palmour Holmes Mclntire
Mary Lou Holton
Barbara Hood Sprunt*

Rutb Houston Jarvis

Adeline Jones Voorhees

Ariana Jones Wittke

Lucy Jones Bendall*

Shield Jones Harris

Jennie Keeling

Alice Kennedy Neel

Mary Elizabeth Kent Page*

Jane Lawrence Houis

Bertha Lee Battey

Mary Jane Lively Hottman

Jean Love Albert

Patricia Luke Bi-yden

Marilyn Mandle Dick

Sarah McDuffic Hardaway

Lelia McLaughlin Thompson

Jacqueline Mott Roy

Helen Murchlson Lane*

Eleanor Myers Cole*

Gloria Xadlcr Knight

Clara Nicol Moore

Hallie .Vixo^i Powell*

Anne Owc7is Mueller

Jeanna Parham Coors

Douglas Parker Moncure

Jean Pollard Kline*

Nan Puckhaber Harrington

Beverley Randolph Knight

Jane Richardson Vieth

Ellen Rabbins Red

Caroline Rudulph Sellers

Nancy Sanders Starr

Grace Schoenhcit Metz

Margaret Sibley Lewis

Catberine Smart Grier

Lee Stevens Gravely

Jessie Strickland Elcock*

Martha Anne Stubbs Fitzsimmons

Eden Taylor Persons

Mary Booth Taylor Hollowell

Ellen Thackray Wilson*

Sara Thompson Mikell

Martha Tittcrington Reid*

Josephine Thomas Collins

Legare Thompson Robertson

Polly Vandeventer Saunders*

Mary Vinton Fleming*

Anita Wadsworth Beckert

Nancy Waite Ward*

Barbara Warner*

Wistar Watts King

Lillian West Parrott*

Martha Witherspoon Brannan

Virginia Wynn

Edwina Young Call*

1947— S409.00— 34%

Agent: Margaret Ellen White
Van Buren

Nancy Alexander Blaney

Janet Amilon Wagner

Eleanor Bosworth Shannon

Cynthia Bemiss Stuart

Anne Burckhardt Block

Judith Burnett Halsey

Blair Burwctl May

Elizabeth Caldwell

Ann Colston Hawley

Eleanor Crumrine Stewart

Elaine Davis Blackford

Aimee DesPland Gibbons

Jean Ann Ferrier Ramsay

Catherine Fitzgerald Booker

Elizabeth Golden Tyler

Helen Hardy

Nan Hart Stone

Jean Hazelhurst Cone

Mar>' Ashley Hudgins Rice

Anne Jackson Ragland

Elizabeth Knapp Herbert

Mary Jane Land Cleveland

Anne Lile Bowden

Ann Marshall Whitley

Joan McCoy Edmonds

Mary Stuart McGuirc Gilliam

Sara Ann McMullen Lindsey

Suzette Morton Sorenson

Elizabeth Mullen

Margaret Munnerh/7i Haverty

Jean Old

Margaret Redfern

Elizabeth Ripley Davey

Margaret Robertson Christian

Nancy Scurry Bowen

Virginia Shackelford Poindexter

Meredith Slane Fitch

Martha Smith Smith

Maria Tucker Bowerfind

Frances t'lmer Conley

Susan Van Cleve Riehl

Trudy Vars Harris

Mary Elizabetb Vick

Virginia Walker Christian

Ann Webb Moses

Katharine Weisiger Osborne
Margaret Ellen White Van Buren
Isabel Zulick Rhoads

1948— $694.75— 43%

Agent: Elizabeth Beltz Rowe
Mary Jo Arinstrong Berryman
Beatrice Backer Simpson
Mar>' Elizabeth Barbour Beggs
Elizabeth Britz Rowe
Katherine Berthier McKelway
Hariotle Bland Coke
Marion Boiver Harrison
Westray Boyce Nicholas
Elizabeth Bramham Lee
Annabell Brock Badrow
Betty Lou Bruton Lyons
Patricia Cansler Covington
Druscilla Christian
Mariha Davis Barnes
Sara Davis Spencer
Louise DeVore Towers
Catherine C. Doolin
Closey Faulkner Dickey
Martha Frye Terrj-
Martha Ellen Garrison Anness
Elizabeth Gibson
Blair Graves Smith
Suzanne Hardy Beaufort
Lydia Henderson Barr
Eve Godchaux Hirsch
Patricia Goldin Harrsch
Mar>' Anne Goodson Rogers
Elizabeth Graves Perkinson
Carolyn Haskell Simpson
McCall Henderson
Virginia Holmes Turner
Carolyn Irvine
Betty Ann Jackson Ryan
Patricia Jenney Nielsen
Jane Johnson Kent
Diane King
Elma Lile
Mar>' Louise Lloyd
Mar>' Jane Luke
Maddin Lupton McCallie
Martha Mansfield Clement
Wilhelmina Massey Keams
Faith Mattison
Carolyn Montgomery Lange
Helen McKemic Riddle
Jeanne Morrell Garlington
Ann Orr Savage
Martha Owen
Ann Paxson
Sarah Pearre
Judith Perkins Llewellyn
Betsy Plunkett Williams
Ann Porter Mullen
Eleanor Potts Snodgrass
Bess Pratt

Caroline Rankin Mapother
Anne Ricks
Martha Rowan Hyder
Marguerite Ruckcr Ellett
Anne Samford Upchurch
Sylvia Schively
Peggy Sheffield Martin
Martha Shmidheiser Rodman
Patricia Smith Nelson
Nancy Snider Martin
Nancy Stcptoe McKinley
Jane Taylor Ix
Patricia Traugott Rixey
Constance Tunnell Bond
Catherine Vance Johns
Nancy Vaughn Kelly
Cornelia Wattley
Virginia Wurzbach Vardy

1949— $613.00—44%

Agent : Catherine Cox

Sally Ay res Shroyer

Margerj' Babcock Nagel

Julia Baldwin Waxter

Catherine Bamett Brown

Caroline Beard DeClerque

Joan Becker Taylor

Elizabeth Brown

Mary Frances Brown Ballard

Patricia Brown

Deborah Carroll Ziegler

Caroline Casey McGehee

Lindsay Coon Robinson

Catherine Cox

Jeanne Crawford Kean

Margaret Cromwell Tipper

Patricia Davin Robinson

Elizabeth Dershuck Gay

June Eager Finney

Julia Easley Mak

Ann Eustis

Anne Fiery Br>an

NOVEMDER. 1956

Marcia FoicUr Smilev
Ruth Garrett Preucel
Zola Garriso}' Wave
Mary Goode Gar DiRaddo
Catherine Hardwick Efird
Katherine Hart
Ann Higffins Rappeleye
Preston Hodges Hill
Ann-Barrett Hohncs Bryan
Marilyn Hopkltis Bamburouph
Elizabeth Jansma
Nancy Jones Worcester
June Krebs Liversage
Brantley Lamberd Boiling
Mar^raret Lawrenee Bowers
Sallie Legg DeMartine
Margaret Long Freas
Joan McCarthu Whiteman
Vidmer Megginson Ellis
Sarah Mclchcr Jai-vis
Mary Virginia Owens Ray
Alberta Pew Baker
Polly Plummer Mackie
Emily Pruitt Jones
Margaret Quynn Maples
Ellen Ramsay Clark
Elizabeth Ruth Cleaver
Mary Louis Stevens
Sally Striekhmd Johnson
Jean Taylor
AHce Trout Hagan
Elizabeth Trueheart Harris
Katharine Veasey Goodwin
Mary Louise Wagner Forrester
Dorothy Wallace Wood
Elizabeth Wellford Bennett

1950— $336.00— 32%

Agent: Marie Gilliam

Barbara Austin
Caroline Bailey Fritzinger
Ann Reiser Asher
Mary Berkeley Fergusson
Anne Brenaman Brydges
Nancy Carter Jewell
Catharine Clark Rasmussen
Frances Cone Kirkpatrick
Elizabeth Coryell Feldmann
Margaret Craig Sanders
Mary Ellen Davis Gettel
Diana Dent

Achsah Easter Henderson
Cynthia Ann IJIUs Dunn
Betty Elmore Gilliland
Barbara FaiuU Marshall
Deborah Fneytiatt Cooper
Mary Morris Gamble Booth
Marie Gilliam
Elise Habenicht
Pat Halloran
Marion Holmes Davison
Anne Hubert Carey
Garland Hunter Davies
Emma Kyle Kimpel
Elise Landravi Layton
Mary Laninun Brown
Kay Leroy Wing
Joan Livingston McFall
Bonnie Beth- Lloyd Crane
Virginia Luscombe Rogers
Frances Marr Dillard
Frances Martin King
Anne McNeer Blanken
Margaret Miirchison Corse
Nancy Nelson Swiggett
Betsey Smvyer Hodges
Lacy Skinner Eckardt
Lola Steele Shepherd
Marv Stubbs Broad
Elizabeth Todd
Carolyn Tynes Cowan
Sarah Webb Lent
Patricia Wilkirson
Dorothy Wood Letts
Elizabeth Worthington

1951— $1,010.85— 52%
Agent: Barbara Lasier Edgerley

Myrtle Alston Mott
Sally Anderson Blalock
Kitty Arp Waterman
Rosalie Barringer Wornham
Patricia Barton
Ann Bennett Yellott
Betty Braivner Bingham
Audrey Breitinger Lauer
Doris Brody Rosen
Janet Broman Crane
Nancy Butterworth Palmer
Patricia Carlin Selvage
Peggy Chisholm Boxley

Ruth Clarkson Costello

Louise Coleman

Anna CooUdge Richardson

Grace Crisler Buchignani

Margery Davidson Rucker

Joan Davis Warren

Carla deCreny Levin

Etta Dirk Shurley

Georgia Dreisbach Kegley

Jean Duerson Bade

Eugenia Ellis Mason

Wingfield Ellis

Mary June Eriksen Ertman

Tero- Faulkner Phillips

Ada Fre}tch McWane

Mary Jane French Halliday

Nedra Greer

Joan Hess

Ashby Jenkins

Joan Kiiehnlc Kaufman

Barbara Lasier Edgerley

Seymour Laughon Rennolds

Suzanne Lockley Glad

Patricia Lynas Ford

Ruth Magec Peterson

Dorothy Marks Herbruck

Nancy Merchant

Julie Micou

Jane Moorefield

Joan Motter Anderson

Mary Murchison Ohrscrom

Ann Mountcastlc Gamble

Ruth Oddy

Susan Ostrander

Mary Parrott Bullington

Mary Pease Fleming

Nancy Pcsek Rasenberger

Jean Randolph Bruns

Ann Red Barstow

Lucy Regestcr Goode

Ursula Reimer Van Anda

Diane Richmond Simpson

Carol Ann Ralston Toulmin

Margaret Seainan Sanville

Ann Sheldon Taylor

Anne Sinsheimer

Nan Sirna Waldstein

Martha StaJcy Smith

Helen Stanley

Mary Street Montague

Joan Vail

Angle Vaughn

Joan Widau Marshall

Joanne Williams Ray

Cynthia Wyman

1952— $899.38— 52%

Agent: Mary Bailey Izzard

Marguerite Anderson Ashford

Sallie Anderson Jones

Katharine Babcovk Mountcastle

Mary Bailey Izzard

Barbara Baker

Cynthia Balch Barnes

Mary Barcus Hunter

Suzanne Bassewitz Shapiro

Patricia Beach

Edith Bell Burr

Leila Booth Morris

Linda Brackett

Jean Caidwell Marchant

Jane Carter

Sally Clay Giddings

Jane Cooke

Catherine Coxe Page

Phoebe DeFoe

Mary Ely Smith

Sally Fishburn Fulton

Mary John Ford Gilchrist

Anne Forster

Cynthia Fowle

Marion Gregory

Nancy Hamel Clark

Keir Henley Donaldson

Holly Hillas Hammonds

Anne Hoagland Plumb

Susan H'obsoti McCord

Joanne Holhrook Patton

Eulalie Jenkins

Susanna Judd Silcox

Louise Kelly Pumpelly

Ann Keyworth Lawrence

Mary Lou Kimball Temple

Nancy Laemmel

Lyn Lane Fozzard

Pat Layne Winks

Martha Legg

Marjorie Levine Abrams

Patricia Lineberger

Edith Marsh Fonda

Mary Marshall O'Neill

Jane AJattas Christian

Florence Maupin

Gabrielle Manikin Bielenstein

Clara McDonald Bass

Robbin McGarry Ramey

Nancy Messick

Mao' Lois Miller Carroll

Margaret Moore

Martha Moore

Carroll Morgan Legge

Brookie Morris

Nancy Morrow Lovell

('athcrine Munds

Betty Miindy Littrell

Margaret Anne Nelson Harding

Nell Grand

Susan Otis

Polly Plmnb DeButts

Jane Ragland Young

Jane Ramsay

Jackie Razook Chamandy

Donna Robinson Cart

Jane Hosebcrry Ewald

Berta Russ Summerell

Jane Russo

Sarah Sadler Lovelace

Alice Sanders Marvin

Joan Sharpe Metzinger

Virginia Sheaff Liddel

Josephine Sibold

Charlotte Sncad Stifel

Joan Stewart Hinton

Frances Street Smith

Harriet Thayer

Janis Thomas Hawk

Jaquelin Thornton Laramore

Nancy Trat^k Wood

Ann Trumbore Ream

Marianne Vorys Minister

Grace Wallace Brown

Louise Warfield Stump

Pauline Wells

Ann Whiitingham Smith

Betsy Wilder

Rebecca Yerkes

1953— $615.50— 50%

Agent: Virginia Hudson

June Arata

Kathleen Bailey

Betty Behlen Strother

Joan Brophy

Barbara Buxton Waugh

Olivia Cantey Patton

Faith Catlin

Mary Chace

Catharine Cocke

Jane Collins Ktlburn

Estelle Courand Lane

Rosemary Creasy

Virginia Dunlap

Anne Elliott

Carol Exnicios

Jean Felty

Dorothea Fuller

SalHe Gayle Beck

Lisabeth Gibson

Margaret Graves McClung

Isabel Grayson Goldsmith

Kitty Guerrant Fields

Susan Hall Godson

Janet Hamilburg

Eleanor Hirsch Baer

Harriette Hodges

Virginia Hudson

Dale Hutter Harris

Sara Ironmonger

Virginia Jago Elder

Eleanor Johnson Ashley

Reed Johns Goodrich

Anne Joyce

Mary Abbay Joyner

Lynne Kerwin Byron

Mary Kimball

Anne Kirksey Ervin

Ann Leonard

Carol LeVarn

MaiT Littlejohn Belser

Nan Locke

Jackie Lowe Swingle

Mary Lee Matheson

Nancy McDonald

Betsy Jane McElfresh

Nancy McGimtis Picard

Mary Ann Mellen

Caroline Miller

Caroline Moody Roberts

Cynthia Moorehead McNair

Georgia Motz McGhee

Nan O'Keefe

Nancy Ord

Joanna Parks

Anne Phelps Gorman

Patsy Phillips Brown

Eugenie Pieper Meredith

Florence Pye Apy

Virginia Robb
Ann Saunders Miller
Carolyn Smith
Mary Stagg
Virginia Timmons
Kirkland Tucker Clarkson
Katherine Turner Mears
Ann VIerebome
Elisabeth Wallace
Josephine Wells
Constance Wcrly Wakelee
Janet Widau Harris
Beverly Williatns Fox
Courtney Willard
Jane Yoe Wood

1954— $545.50— 42%

Agent: Faith Rahmer

Anne Allen

Page Anderson Hungerpiller

Magdalen Andrews

Joan Anson Hurwitt

Louise Aubrey McFarland

Barbara Ballard

Sue Bassett

Jayne Berguido Abbott

Joy Bennett Hartshorn

Doreen Booth Hamilton

Louise Brandes Abdullah

Sarah Bumbaugh-

Erlend Carlton McCafTree

Caroline Chabot

Joan Chamberlain Engelsman

Marilynn Clark Leathers

Ann Collins

Nancy Cornwall

Anne Dai-is Roane

Margaret Davison

Jeri-y Dreisbach

Nancy Edwards Paul

Lamar Ellis

Ruth Frye Deaton

Sally Gammon

Jean Gillespie Walker

Nanci Hay

Jane Henley Zahner

Margaret Hetley

Mimi Hitchcock

Meri Hodges Major

Vaughan Inge Morrissette

Martha Isdale

Margaret Jones Steuart

Dallis Johnson Jones

Margaret Lotterhos Smith

Nancy Maury

Ann May Via

Mary Lee McGinnis

Kay McLaughlin

Margaret Mohlman

Nancy Moody

Jean Carolyn Morris

Jo Ann Nelson Booze

Mary Hill Noble Day

Julia O'Neil Gould

Joy Parker Eldredge

Barbara Ann Pinnell

Joan Potter Bickel

Faith Rahmer

Mary Ann Robb

Frances Reese Peale

Mary Jane Roos

Anne Sheffield

Bette-Barron Smith

Helen Smith Lewis

Jeanne Stoddart Barends

Ann Thomas

Victoire Toof

Margaret Van Peenan

Elinor Vorys

Betty Walker Dykes

Bruce Watts Krucke

Ann White Connell

Barbara Wil-iou Daniell

1955— $700.00— 45%

Agent: Catherine Cage

Harriet Adelson

Helen Addington Passano

Nancy Anderson

Kathrj'n Beard

Fx-ances Bell

Barbara Black

Ellen Bryan

Catherine Cage

Ruth Campbell

Virginia Chamblin

Emily Coxe Winburn

Lucretia Crater Pearse

Gail Davidson Bazzarre

Jane Dildy

Nancy Douthat

Alumnae News

Pat Dunlap MacGreKor

Rebecca Faxon Sawtelle

Jane F'eltus

Lee Fiducia

Virginia Fint-h

Barbara (iurjorlli Jackson

Hetty Gill

Sue Godfrey Gre(?ory

Nella Gray Barkley

Joan Gualtieri

Susan Haywnrd Harris

Martha Hvdrjtmu Huckinjrham

Phyllis Herndon

Emily Huntvr SlinKlulT

Diane Johnson

Phyllis Joyner

Joan Kells

Jeannette Kennedy

Chase Lane

Sue Lawton

Jane Leigh

Jane Lindsey

Frances Marbury Coxe

Derrill Maubank Hagood

Patty McCiay

Barbara McLamb

Amanda McThenia

Patricia Mever

Betsy Miller

Sally Obcrlin Davis

Margaret Osborti Haynes

Barbara Plnmit Hunt

Lydia Plamj) Plattenburg

Gay Reddig

Nathalie Robertson Fox

Betty Saitford Molster

Susan Seward

Mary Stmimon Daugette

Meta Space

Betsy Stevens

Audrey Stoddard

Metta Streit Halla

Sally Stroth-man
Shirley Sutliff
Charlotte Taylor
Barbara Telfer
Emily Thompson
Patricia Tucker
Diane Vvrucy Greenway
A dele Voorhees
Elise Wachenfeld
Mai'garet Wvst Valentine
Anne Williams
Camille Williams

1956— $237.00

Barbara Habcock

Lucy lihiitton Park

Carol lirrclccnridge Luckett

Joan Fisch Gallivan

Laura Hailey

Mary Koonz

Virginia Nvlsou Self

Elizabeth Porker Paul
Sherry Pntton Henry
Paula Purse
Joan Roberts
Caroline Robinson
P'rances Timberlake
Sally Whittier

1957— $36.00

Elizabeth Bundy
Ruth Candler Lovett
Lloyd Ely
Ann Frasher
Klynor Neblctt Stephens
Susannah Newlin
Averala Ann Paxton
Cynthia Wilson

1958

Ann Robinson

Department of Religion

{Coiiliitiied froii/ p'lge 3)

tinued to be used and \alued by Sweet Briar students for
many years after Miss Czarnomska's remarkable personality
had become a campus legend.

Two years before Miss Czarnomska's retirement, Miss
Marion Benedict came to teach Bible and related subjects,
and the expansion of the work of the department led even-
tually to changing the name from "Biblical Literature" to
"Religion." Miss Benedict, now Mrs. Rollins, carried the
teaching alone for the next decade, during the period when
the "group system" was introduced in the curriculum and
the specific degree requirement in Bible was abolished, thus
making it possible to add new courses in Religion and to
begin offering a major in 1933-34.

From 19-iO to 1950, Dean Mary Ely Lyman taught one
course in Religion each semester, and in 1950 Miss Dean
Hosken came as Mrs. Rollins' first full-time colleague in
the department. During the three years, 1952-55, Mr.
Dikran Hadidian added to the work of the department his
tirst-hand experience of life in the Near East. In 1955
Mr. William Mallard succeeded Mr. Hadidian, and now
he and Miss Hosken are teaching full-time and Mrs. Rollins
is teaching part-time.

After the removal of the four-hour Bible requirement
in 1932, registration for religion courses naturally dropped
considerably tor several years. Then there began an irreg-
ular trend toward increase and this was augmented by the
quickened student interest in the study of religion which
has been apparent throughout the country during and since
World War II. For the second semester of 1955-56, the
enrollment in the department was 185. In the past nine-
teen years, an average of 63% of Sweet Briar graduates
have elected some academic work in religion, while for the
last ten graduating classes, the average has risen to 729o
with as high as SO'r one year and 86'' f another. This year
there are 20 majors in the department.

Throughout all the religion courses, both instructors
and students try to be alert to the relation of this discipline
to other fields in the liberal arts curriculum. The material
studied is often literature of the finest quality, even in
translation, while any acquaintance with the original lan-
guages which the student may acquire increases her under-
standing and appreciation. A considerable part of several
of the courses is actual history, enlivened and illuminated

by any knowledge of sociology, economics, geography, ar-
chaeology, psychology, natural science, and relevant art or
music that the student may be able to bring to bear upon
the historical inquiry. Philosophy is clearly related to much
of the thinking that takes place in a religion class, both
metaphysics and ethics playing a large part, and the history
itself frequently becoming a history of ideas or beliefs.
With all this, the very nature of the material studied in
religion courses carries with it a distinctive challenge to
personal commitment and spiritual adventure.

The weekday chapel services on Tuesday and Friday
noons are conducted by either faculty or students, with an
occasional outside speaker. During recent years various
campus clubs have corporately taken responsibility for cer-
tain chapels, and an interesting innovation has been for
rival clubs, such as Tau Phi and Chung Mung, to conduct
a chapel service together. The ten o'clock Lenten services
are almost entirely planned and led by students. Another
much cherished student-led service is the Y. W. C. A. ves-
pers held each Sunday evening, usually in Manson but some-
times in the West Dell. Here the natural beauty of the
campus, an ever-present force, has a special effect on the
religious sensibilities of worshippers.

The Y. W. C. A. carries on vital discussion groups, and
its activities also take students off campus into several
county schools and welfare organizations where they give
recreational leadership and other forms of service. Further
cooperation with county organizations, as w^ell as aid to
individuals and families, is made possible through allocat-
ing to such causes some of the Sunday church offerings of
the college communit)', which are administered by the
Church and Chapel Committee. About a third of the mem-
bers of this committee are appointed by President Pannell
from the faculty and staff, while the rest are students — •
three elected to represent each class, and others serving
ex officio because of their positions in the Y. W. C. A. or
in student government. Each of the eleven sub-committees
through which the large committee functions has student
members, and some have student chairmen.

What was written in 1949 remains true: "Religion at
Sweet Briar is a growing thing. Not only are courses fre-
quently revised in the effort to meet the needs of the time,
but the subtler aspects of the religious life of the college
are continually renewed and enriched as successive genera-
tions of students, and faculty members of varied nationality
and religious heritage, all give to the group life the treas-
ures of the spirit that they have found."

Novi:mbhr. 1956

jHcmoriam

Calvert G.

DE Coligny, June

1956

The Alumnae Association of Sweet Briar College received the news of the death of Calvert de Coligny, hus-
band of Julia Sadler de Coligny, '34, with the deepest regret. Mr. de Coligny was actively interested in the
college, coming frequently to the campus when Julia served on the Executive Board of the Alumnae Council
and later when she was elected to membership on the Board of Overseers.

CLASS NOTES

ACADEMY-SPECIALS

Secretary: Marion Peele, 602 Fairfax Ave-
nue, Norfolk 7, Va.

Fund Agent: Nannie Claiborne (Mrs.
Dallas Hudson), New Glasgow, Va.

If you had a yen in the spring to return
to the days of your youth and the highly
charged atmosphere of old friends and
memorable surroundings, you would have
found much happiness and gaiety at com-
mencement this year. You would have said
-with one member of the Class of 1910:
"I was days getting back to earth after such
a delightful experience." Sweet Briar itself
■was at its beautiful best.

All of the returning members of the ear-
liest days of the college were housed to-
gether at Boxwood Inn, and while the later
alumnae and present students may have
viewed us as of another age and era, the
Inn looked and sounded much as the dormi-
tories did about 1910-1912. And you wont
believe this, but great stir and commotion
arose from the Inn authorities about a mis-
placed or unaccounted-for pillow, the prop-
erty of the Inn. This, among dignified ma-
trons, spinsters, and grandmothers had the
ring of old times, when you may remember
Miss Carroll would have us searching to
produce mislaid or misused dormitory prop-
erty. Of course, it was later discovered that
the pillow in question had never been in
place !

Of our Academy-Special group Margaret
Potts Williams, Claudine Griffin Holcomb,
Dudley Poirer.t Waggaman, Anne Royall,
and I were on hand for the celebration, to
our enduring delight I'm sure. Claudine
Hutter's and Frances Murrell Rickards' in-
spiration to start the week end off was a
delightful luncheon party they gave at The
Columns in Lynchburg, where about 30 of
us old-timers gathered. Mrs. Pannell was
one of the gay party, with a warm welcome
to visiting alumnae and the ofifer of prac-
tically "the keys to the college."

Claudine Griffin Holcomb and Eugenia
Griffin Burnett told us of the exciting sum-
mer's visit to England thev wer- anticipat-
ing — Claudine and her husband going on lo
the continent for a real tour, I understood.
It seemed so good and so natural to see
Margaret Banister, Antoinette Cttmp Ha-
good, and Rachel Furhudj Wood, all of the
Class of 1916, together again on campus.
Antoinette reported that Margaret Cobb

Howard and Mr. Howard are now her next
door neighbors in Charleston.

So many of you have replied to my letter
of last April, and to each of you who so
warmly and generously responded, sincere
thanks again. With no exceptions your let-
ters have glowed in warm appreciation of
Sweet Briar and an abiding memory and
faith in Miss Benedict, with grateful expres-
sions, too, for her never failing understand-
ing in helping you meet your problems.
Emmy Thomas Thomasson's letter and gift
in her memory came first, with a whiff may-
be of homesickness that illness had pre-
vented her returning to Sweet Briar earlier
in this anniversary year. Some of the others
heard from are: Mildred Cobb Roosevelt,
Mary Herd Moore, Faye Elliott Pogue, Lucy
Lantz McKinlay, Martha Valentine Cronley,
Maria Garth Inge, Elizabeth Cocke, and
Frances Martin. All of you will be happy
to know the Benedict Scholarship has grown
appreciably this year as a part of the Fif-
tieth Anniversary program.

Those of us at the Inn for commence-
ment, I believe, shared a feeling of Miss
Benedict's presence, so earnestly had she
hoped to be there. Each of us had her own
reminders of Miss Benedict's hopes and
plans for the college as it is today.

With such a fine rounding up of mem-
bers of our group, please be sure the good
beginning continues. Let me hear from you
with news of yourself, your family, your
interests and activities. You are all as dis-
appointed as I am, I'm sure, when there
are no Academy-Special notes in the Sweet
Briar Alumnae Newj, so I'm depending
on you to let me hear from you. And you
won't forget that only those who contribute
to the Alumnae Fund receive the March
and June issues of the Alumnae News.

1913

President: Elizabeth Franke (Mrs. Kent
Balls), 304 Meridian Street, West Lafay-
ette, Ind.

Secretary: Mary Pinkerton (Mrs. James
Kerr), 536')A Carnarvon Drive, Norfolk,
Va.

Fund Agent: Mary Clark (Mrs. Clarence
Rogers), 205 Beverley Road, N.E., Atlanta,
Ga.

Though this was not our reunion year,
any of you would have found so many con-
temporaries among the 225 alumnae, that

you would have enjoyed Commencement.
1956, as much as did Sue Slaughter, Bessie
Franke Balls, and I. Our honorary member.
Dr. Connie M. Guion, had one of the prin-
cipal roles in the alumnae play, "Steps to
Reunion. " As a member of the Board of
Overseers, Dr. Guion was on the speakers
platform at Commencement. Miss Ruth
Howland and Miss Eugenia Morenus were
in the academic procession and Dr. Mary
Harley came over from "Westholme," with
"the Walkers," to be with the faculty.

You have read of the plan to establish
the Wallace E. Rollins Chair of Religion.
We were all glad to greet Dr. Rollins and
to look forward with him, not only to the
establishment of the chair of religion, but
also to a future chapel. One of the sugges-
tions for the continuing development fund
program was that contributions, especially
to the chapel, regardless of amount, be
made as memorials to persons either living
or dead. For details, consult our capable
fund agent, Mary Clark Rogers.

During commencement, the Boxwood Inn
was turned over to the oldest alumnae.
After the day's events we gathered there to
exchange news of families, friends, and
absent classmates. We had meals in the
Reid dining room, except for the alumnae
banquet in the refectory, and the final
luncheon in the boxwood garden. There
were many favorable comments on the food.
Sweet Briar makes its own bread now. It
is delicious. Calories went uncounted while
we sent hack the plate for more.

At the alumnae banquet we enjoyed the
rich, full voice of Lucile Barroir Turner in
her unusual repertoire.

One of the pleasures of "Sweet Briar Re-
visited" is to see the beautiful upkeep of
the grounds, the careful planting of peri-
winkle around the bases of trees, and the
flower beds and borders brightening the old
garden, as well as the faculty gardens and
the additional shrubs and plants. For the
commencement exercises, the gymnasium
was decorated with garlands and clusters of
roses, so fresh that the committee must have
timed the gathering and arrangement, not
to lose morning dew in waiting.

I am glad to have the address of Linda
Wright, 7118 La Jolla Blvd., La Jolla,
Calif. If any of you have information of
Mrs. Floyd Knight (Ruth Drew), or her
address, please send it to me or the alumnae
office.

Ah/mnae News

Last June was the first time many of us
liuJ attendcti the "Alumnae College" and
■dl of us found it interesting. It was divided
into four haU-liDur talks. Dr. Bennett
(Biology) began with "Living Clocks and
Calendars," an account of research into the
ultimate causes of the regular color changes
in the large, dark claw of fiddler crabs.
Miss Stimson (History) began her survey
of scientific history with a vivid account of
the familiar conditions which would have
been found by Aristotle if he could have
returned to life to visit George Washington
at Mt. Vernon in I7(i^. Mrs. Rollins, in her
talk on "Biblical Perspective," reviewed
definitions of freedo.'ii, power, essentials,
success versus failure, from the Old Testa-
ment to Christ. Mr. Bricken in his talk on
the future role of music discussed modern
music.

1915

Secretary: Frances W. Pennvpacker, 226
First Ave., Phoenixville, Pa.

My appeal for news has brought me a
long and newsy letter from Marjorie Du-
Sh.ine Stedman, 'l^. Last December she
and her husband moved from their lovely
home in Yakima, Wash., to Portland. Ore-
gon. They are now living at Willamette
View Manor, one of a group of homes for
elderly people sponsored by the Methodist
Church, Inc. The members buy their apart-
ments which are equipped for light house-
keeping, but there is also a dining room
connected with the Manor and the Stedmans
take most of their meals there. As about
twenty-five of their Yakima friends were
already living there, they have never felt
like strangers.

A card arrived early in August from
Anne Schutle Nolt, from Snow Inn,
Harwichport. Mass.. where she and Pete
have been spending the summer. Mary
S.iiler Gardiner, '2''g, and her husband were
there at the same time The Nolts return to
Lancaster after Labor Day.

Margaret Grant writes that she is
finding her new job very interesting. This
is the first summer in nine years that she
has not gone to Europe and she says it
seems good to have a summer in her native
land. The Leslie Bigelows have built a
charming modern house in Middlebur^'. Vt.,
where he teaches. They have three children.
Peggy and her husband have been in the
L'nited States for two months but have
now returned to Caracas. Venezuela, for
another two years. Harry and his wife live
in Tarrytown where he teaches in the Hack-
ley School. This summer he is doing grad-
uate work at Columbia during summer
school. In September Margaret expects to
be traveling again in preparation for some
meetings.

Elmyra Pemiyp.ickii Yerkes, '29g, sails on
a Mediterranean cruise on the C.iroii/.i on
September 7th and I expect to go to New-
York with her to see her off on her trip.
Elmyra was operated upon last April for a
duodenal ulcer. She had a couple of set-
backs due to a virus infection but when
she recovered she made splendid progress.
She has lost a lot of weight and looks as
slim as a wand, very becoming!

If all goes as expected, I will be taking

oflf for Italy next March and hope to visit
in Southern France, the low countries and
En,gland. returning early in June.

1917

President: PoLLV BlsSELL (Mrs. Earl S.

Ridler), 608 Lindsay Rd., Wilmington 3,

Delaware.

Secretary: DoROTHY Grammer (Mrs.

Harry A. Croyder), AA Kent Place Blvd.,

Summit, N. J.

Fund Agent: RACHEL Llovd (Mrs. Hoyt

Holton), 2 318 Dtnsmore Drive, Toledo 6,

Ohio

I did not send out double postals this
summer, so I have very little news. 1 see
from the June Alumnae News that Genie
Steele Hardy was on campus in June. I
hope this does not mean that she will not
come to our 40th reunion in June 1957.
I am counting on all of you. Those of you
from the West and South, please put off
that visit to New York until June and then
run down to Sweet Briar for our reunion.
It will do wonders for each one of us to
meet again and to see how Sweet Briar has
grown and developed. I told my two un-
married children that they were not to get
married in June 1957. David was obedient
and was married this past June to Elinore
Brown of Cedarhurst, Long Island. I expect
our daughter. Page, Sweet Briar '54, to put
off any plans she might have until after
June, 1957.

Rachel Llayd Holton wrote me last fall
that her daughter had moved to Cranford,
N. J. She visited her but was not able to
come over to see me in Summit. I hope that
the next time she is in Cranford, she will
let me know. Mary B/ssell Ridler, as our
class president, is planning some fine times
for us next June, so don't forget.

1918

President: Cornelia Carroll (Mrs. K. N.

Gardner). Yorktown, Va.

Secretary: ESTHER TuRK (Mrs. H. H.

Hemmings), 230 W. 79th Street, New

York 24, N. Y.

Fund Agent: ViviENNE Barkalow (Mrs.

Stanley K. Hornbeck), 2139 Wyoming

Ave., N. W., Washington 8, D. C.

It is very hard to extract any news at all
during holiday months. Most of what I have
was gleaned late last year, but we all want
to remember that this is the only number
that goes to every member of the class and
hope that it will remind us all of the im-
portance of our contributions to the fund.
At any rate, we do have some news and it's
"greatly to our credit" for several have
reported serious illness, accidents or opera-
tions, but all on the mend now. Mary Reed
had a long trip to Florida and got back in
the late spring to home chores. Catherine
MinhMI Shuler took a trip south, but says
she never has any news. She "got out of
ever\'thing long ago and now the d.uighters
do all the work." Marianne Martin was
quite ill last year, but is back at work
again. She is on a new job in the Norfolk
division of the College of William and
Mary. Cilia Cuggenhcimer Nusbaum is also
congratulating herself on a rapid recovery
from a major operation, but is evidently
back on the beam again. She says her very

young granddaughter asserts a preference
for Goucher over S. B. C, but her mother
went there, which might just explain it.
Betty Luuinan Hall writes of a pleasant
trip with her husband to Pinehurst, N. C.
Her sin was going into the service right
after taking his master's degree. Charlotte
Seaver Kelsey took time to send news this
summer in the intervals of work on three
hospital boards. She says she is disgustingly
healthy and spends all her time having
grandchildren parked on her. There are
nine now, but it certainly has done nothing
to get her down. Elizabeth Wilson writes
that she has spent the last ten years as
executive secretary of the International In-
stitute of Gary, Ind., dealing with all the
problems of refugees and immigrants in a
great industrial center. She is just back
from a big family reunion in Santa Fe,
with her sister Katherine Wilson Sellers,
formerly on the Sweet Briar faculty. Dean
Sellers of the Presbyterian Theological
Seminary retired recently and they took a
trip around the world and ended up with
a reunion in Santa Fe.

My own news is rather mixed. Last win-
ter I had a very full house and was decid-
edly busy just feeding those present. The
trouble is that my family all love pluraliz-
ing jobs and are never present at the same
hour. Now they have scattered again. The
two married sons are in Chicago and New
Orleans with their respective families. The
next one is currently in New York and will
soon be transferring to take a job in Chi-
cago and attend Northwestern. The fourth
will soon be in Chicago, too, on leave from
the Security Air Police. He is desperately
energetic and I think the Air Force just
gives him leave when they get tired of him.
On his last leave, he travelled by bus from
South Dakota to New York and arrived
panting only to change his clothes and go
to the movies. Number five enters Cornell
this year and six (the only female) is here
in England where she will go to school.
She fell in love with the British Isles when
we all came over in '54 and wishes to pre-
pare for St. Andrews, so after some frantic
cabling we brought her over on one week's
notice to attend a very good day school in
Cheltenham. If she does make St. Andrews,
she will have a chance to meet some of her
contemporaries from Sweet Briar.

Cornelia Carroll Gardener has moved
recently, which is enough to keep anyone
busy, but we have news of her indirectly.
Vivienne Barkalow Hornbeck writes that
she had a long telephone chat with her in
Tune. The Hornbecks took one of their
trips to Atlantic City in July and stayed
an extra day to see the Preview of the 1956
Ice Capades. They stayed close to their TV
during the conventions, but afterward flew
to Mackinac Island for the Beta Theta Pi
convention.

1921

President: Florence Woelfel. 2620 Lake-
view Ave., Chicago 14. III.
Secretary: Florence Woelfel.
Fund Agent: Rhoda Allen (Mrs. John S.
Worden), 9 Hugenot Drive. Larchmont,
N.Y.

First — a big thank-you to those who
answered my letters — actually there were
so few replies, which greatly enhanced the

NOVIIMDER, 19'i6

value of those received. Sincerely appreci-
ated the monetary response for the gift for
the new dormitory from the Class of '21 —
this doesn't mean it is too late to send in
your contribution and the gift will de-
pend on your generosity.

Edith Dutrctl Marshall, with her untiring
efforts for our Class as well as all facets
of Sweet Briar, gave us such a grand let-
ter in the February issue that she seems to
have covered most of the news of many of
you. A few new addresses — Maynette Roz-
elle (Mrs. James A. Stephenson) 115 S. E.
17th Ave., Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. — Marjorie
Abraham (Mrs. Jerome Meyer) 908 Sher-
idan Dr., Birmingham, Ala. — Katherine
Hawkins (Mrs. F. F. Baker) 1100 S. 27th
St.', Birmingham, Ala. — Laura Thompson
(Mrs. Dougald McMillan) 1010 Dawes
St., Chapel Hill, N. C.

We looked for you, Gertrude Anderson,
to join us at Reunion and also had rumors
that Gertrude Thams would be there. You
did miss a fun-time with all the rich re-
ward of seeing your Classmates. Gert An-
derson writes she enjoys her gardening and
will visit her brother in Florida in No-
vember. She had a card from Josephine
Kelley Thomas ('22) who had visited S. B.
Her husband is a lawyer and their only son
was graduated from Indiana X].. Han'ard
Law School — recently married and in the
army. Gertrude Thams and her brother
sold their large home following the death
of their mother — they found a "dream
house" out of Denver in the mountains but
due to the 2000 ft. altitude it did not agree
with her brother's health. They now have
a new home in the lovely Cherry Hills
section of Denver where she is busy with
her home, garden, and friends.

Kate Cordes Kline, with her husband
and son visited Rhoda on their way back
from Cape Cod. Jo Aknj MacMillan has
a most attractive daughter and thev lunched
with Rhoda. Congratulations. Rhoda, a
new granddaughter and your son. John, to
be home, released from the Army.

Madelaine Biggar says her interests are
"everything," mainly occupied with her
nieces and nephews who keep her active in
golf, fishing, etc. So sorry, Madelaine. your
plans were changed as you had hoped to
return for Reunion — do hope your mother
is much improved.

Gert Peiitly Crawford recently had an in-
teresting trip along the Ohio, from Evans-
ville to Steubenville — beautiful country, I
know, as I motored down to Marietta, Ohio,
this spring when buds were bursting. Note
your interests include travel and grand-
children — I can go along with you on the
first but must bow to you on the latter. Be
sure to call me on your next trip to Chi-
cago. Ruth Armitte.id Robinson was mighty
busy this year as her daughter, an S. B.
Alumna, made her debut. Lib Baldiini
Whitehurst has a daughter at Holton Arms
and her son was graduated from "W. 'Va.
Elizabeth Claxton Lewis — we're mighty
sorry your smart offspring didn't follow
your steps to S. B. One daughter is a Phi
Beta Kappa from William and Mary, and
now with I. B. M. A second daughter is an
Honor Student there and a third was grad-
uated with honors this year from junior
high. Elizabeth is a widow and has a jo-i
as School Secretary.

Fanny Eltstrorlh Scannell sent a snapshot

of her two lovely children — both have posi-
tions in New York, while Fanny has her
interest in social work and love for music.
Mattie Hammond Smith has a year old
grandson — also one daughter teaches and
another is a registered technician in Char-
lottesville. Her sister, Louise, has a job in
a Palm Beach shop during the winter,
which she enjoys very much. Kather
Hawkins Baker — welcome back after all
our efforts to find you. She is a clerk in
the Probate Court working on tax redemp-
tions — has a son 31 and Katherine includes
in her activities her church, home, sports,
bridge and people — mighty busy, I'd say.
She plans a California trip this fall — do
take along your Alumnae Book and look
up the Sweet Briarites — I did, and it's
fun!

Ruth Lundholm is a bacteriologist in
charge of the T. B. lab, Minneapolis Board
of liealth. Marie M.illheii' Lee couldn't join
us at Reunion as her younger son was grad-
uated this June from Duke Medical. Her
older son practices law with his father and
is married — Marie is a "grandma" too.
Halle Moore Crisler sent a wonderful col-
ored snapshot — you and your husband look-
ing mighty young ! Recall the bridge game
we had in Carson — you must be terrific by
now. Dorothy Powell is law librarian nf
the Kansas City Law Library, a most in-
teresting and busy job.

Shelley Roi/ge Aagesen, at Reunion, told
stories cute as buttons — such mimicry.
Shelley, Lette Shoop Dixon and Kate
Cordes kept us convulsed and we'll give
them the "Oscars" for entertainment. Shelly
does some writing and is interested (prob-
ably an authority) in antiques. Florence
Scotell 'Vaughan is a bridal consultant and
much too busy for a June get-away to join
us. Her son, Hines, will marry next Janu-
ary and Bootsey is most happy she will
have such a charming daughter.

Wish you could have heard "Shafe"
Wadhams eloquently open a discussion on
the 1956 version of step-singing — brought
results and congratulations as she voiced
the opinion of many of the Alumnae. With
her 7 grandchildren, we crown you No. I
grandmother of our .^5th Reunion.

Way over my alloted lineage — more next
time if you will write me.

1922

President: Elizabeth Huber (Mrs. Wm.
Welch II), Sunset Rd., Laverock Hills, Pa.
Secretary: Grizzelle Thomson, 1901
Claremont Ave., Norfolk, 'Va.
Pund A^ent: Katherine Shenehon (Mrs.
Lewis W. Child), 1814 Knox Ave. So.,
Minneapolis 5, Minn.

Greetings everyone. You will be sorry to
learn that Trot has given up the grand job
she did for us. The items in this letter did
not reach her in time for the May issue
and are all that I can report. Have not as
yet received the class list, but when I do,
please return one of the double cards you
receive full of news right quickly.

Wasn't it a thrill to see the picture of '21
in the May News and learn what a grand
reunion they had? Remember our 35th will
be next June (1957). Begin plans now to
see if we can't out-do them in attendance.

This issue of Alumnae News goes ti
everyone. Only contributors to the Fund

receive the other two issues. Do send in
your Fund contribution so '22 will show
how much she appreciates the contribution
S. B. made to us 35 long years ago.

From Zurich, Switzerland (Feldegg St.
80), Helen Hodgskm Fingerbrith writes
that her doctor husband has moved his of-
fice to a larger, newly decorated place with
which he is greatly pleased. Max Jr., after
Ifi months of military service, became .i
lieutenant. Now he and Carl are both at
Poly in Zurich, Max studying chemistry and
Carl architecture. Flex, in pre-school, is 14
now. Helen has her usual housekeeping
routine and attends a life class twice a
week.

Ruth Todd's daughter, Betty, a 1950 S.
B. graduate, was married May 26th. The
older son, Sam Jr., is an orthopedic surge.in
and was doing Navy duty in Portsmouth,
'Virginia. He came out in September and is
now at home with his wife and small son.
The younger son is a sophomore in medical
school of the LIniversity of Cincinnati, a
Duke graduate.

Aline Morion Burt. La Grange, 111., has
a married daughter (with two cunning sons)
who lives in a nearby suburb. The married
son is a research engineer in top secret
electronics in Evanston. She spent Mother's
Day weekend with the younger son, a
sophomore at Colorado College, returning
from a trip to California, where she visited
her sister, Jessie (also S. B.), in San Ma-
teo. Aline attends several business confer-
ences a year with her husband who is man-
ager of Royerson Steel Corp. Recent trips
were to Mexico and the Caribbean coun-
tries. Her hobbie of photography supplies
repeat requests from club shows. She is
also active in church, community, and Phi
Beta Phi activities.

Emily Moon Spilman and husband had a
three month trip west this spring, attend-
ing the Methodist Gen^,ral Conference.
They took the boat to Alaska, flying back to
Seattle. Were due in Wayne.sboro, Va.,
their home, in July. Four of their children
are married; Susan in Houlton, Maine;
Mary E. in Indianapolis; Bill on the paper
with his father; Louis Jr. in Tenn.. also
publishing a paper. Bob is at R.-M. college
and Martha Jane at Mary Washington.
Their grandchildren number 13. Emily
keeps busy in Hospital Auxiliary, WSCS
student chairman, "Va. Mothers Assn., etc.
I wish you could all see the unique and
interesting Christmas folder, with pictures
and sketches of each family group, which
the Spilmans sent out in 1955.

Last summer and this I have spent at
"Va. Beach. It's good to settle down in one
place for a whole summer again after a
number of years spent traveling. Am at the
same school job each winter where I live
with an aunt in Norfolk. Had a visit yes-
terday on the beach with Ben (Florine
Gilbert's son) and Martha (Mattie Ham-
mond's daughter) Smith. They enjoy their
young son.

1923

Secretary: Marie S. Klooz, 3026 Porter
St., N. W., Washington 8, D. C.

You all must be tired of your Secretary!
This time I had only six replies to my re-
quest for news and views. Two of my

Alumnae New!

queries were "duds." Agnes Virginia
DouRhfrly Pollitt has moved from Eliza-
bethtown, Ky., and left no address. And
the same is true of Ruth M.irliii Khnen,
formerly of Sewickly, Penna.

Ellen Blown Nichols writes: "We are
spending this month (Aug.) at Rehoboth
Beach, Dcla., as we usually do and will re-
turn to Denton on Labor Day . . 1 am still
librarian at Caroline High School and en-
|oy the work very much. My biggest piece
of news is that our daughter, Ellen Carter
Nichols, is entering Sweet Briar this Sep-
tember. She was graduated from the Bald-
win School in Brj'n Mawr in June, and
we were very pleased that S. B. accepted
her. We visited the college last March
and were surprised at the way it has grown.
I was so glad to see Helen McMahon
again."

Lillian Eitrelt Blake reports: "What
news I have is mostly sad. I lost my hus-
band m February, after a year's struggle
tor health. We had just returned from a
trip to Florida with much hope when it
happened. He was president of McLean
Contracting Co. My son is with the same
firm. He moved back here with his wife
and my two granddaughters. This is very
nice for me as you can well imagine . . .
I had the pleasure of having dinner with
Louise BriiikUy Caulk in June in her lovely
home in Suffolk, Virginia. She was ent"r-
taining Elizabeth Shoop Dixon's friends,
Kate Cordei Kline and Marian Shaffer
Wadhams. They were just back from S.B.
finals. Both looked fine, even better looking
than 30 years ago. which is when I last
saw them. Remarkable "

Emma Mai Crocktll Owen says: "Since
my second marriage (nearly 7 years ago) I
have lived in Jackson. Tenn. (87 miles
from Memphis). I have kept busy with
Milunteer activities only, until about 10
months ago when I was asked to be
Executive Secretaiy of the local Lions Club.
I am enjoying the work and contact with a
most active group of men — and it doesn't
interfere with my social and volunteer civic
activities, so I continue to play bridge.
serve as treasurer of the Jackson Chapter
Associates for the Preservation of Tennes-
sean Antiquities, and as president of the
Mary Anna Ashby Milk Fund, etc. I write
hook reviews for the local paper. The Jack-
sun Sun. Jackson is a gay place socially,
so there is always that sort of activity.

"This spring my only child, Mrs. Wil-
liam M. Ewing of Far Hills. N. J., pre-
sented me with another grandson, 'William
M, Ewing. Jr. Of course he is a darling
and a welcome addition to the famly. His
older brother. Frank Crockett Ewing, was
■) years old in July. Whenever I go East.
I visit in Bronxville and always see Cath-
erine Wilson Nolen. She has a lovely home
there and is a gracious and charming host-
ess. Yesterday I heard that Fitzallen Ken-
d.ill Fearing is in Macon, Ga. She had an
accident recently and has suffered a good
deal. She was pulling down the garage
door, and it fell on her. She was alone and
was not found for a number of hours. I
caught a glimpse of Lorette Hjmplon
Hume in Nashville not long ago.

Beth H.dl Hatcher reports a busy time
"as a plain old housewife. Our oldest
daughter. Beth, married last Christmas, .got

her Masters in foreign affairs from the I',
of Virginia in June and lives in Charlottes-
ville. Our middle daughter, Marney. lives
and works in New York. Our youngest.
Mary Lynda, is a senior in high school this
year. They fill all my time."

Jane Lee Best says: "While at Wrights-
ville Beach for a couple of weeks last month
(July) a friend at Chapel Hill. N. C, told
me that Mathilda Bryiinl George is living
there. If I go to the 'Hill' in the fall for
any football games, I will try to locate
her . . . My husband died in April, 1916,
so I have had a very busy time, continuing
his insurance business and raising my son
and daughter who were 12 and 10. My son
left college and married at 19. is very much
a family man and proud papa. My daughter.
Jane Cutlar. entered S. B. as a transfer
Junior last fall and is returning for her
senior year. She loves it and got along
beautifully. She had attended our old Epis-
copal Junior College in Raleigh, N, C, for
2 years."

Elizabeth Mason Richards says: "My one
piece of news is a change of address (after
20 years) to Church Hill, River St., Nor-
well, Mass. The new house should be fin-
ished in the early fall. Our son and his
wife have bought a 200-year-old house just
6 miles away. They have 5 fireplaces and 8
acres of land. Our youngest, Caroline, will
be a Sophomore at Smith. I met my S.B.
big sister' a week or so ago. She is
Florence Ires Hathaway, formerly of New
Jersey, now in Abington, Mass. Lorna Web-
ber Dowling could give you news of Helen
Qujyle Teare.

The grapevine reports that Helen Rich-
ards Horn has two painting classes: a Pres-
byterian .group and one at a synagogue.

1925

special Correspondent: Eleanor Miller
(Mrs. William B. Patterson), 309 N.
Ridgeway Drive. Greensboro, N. C.

The June issue of the Alumnae Nevcs
has just arrived, and as usual I have turned
first of all to the Class Notes — hopefully.
But alack and alas, as usual, there is no
mention of the class of 'I'S. It is just as if
we had all passed out of the picture! As I
feel very much alive, and imagine the rest
of you do, too, I have decided to "take pen
in hand " and insert a paragraph or two
for the next issue.

I have been threatening to do this for a
year but somehow the right time never
came. This weekend in August, while my
husband has gone on a fishing trip, and
my only son and daughter are away, would
seem the opportune time, for practically all
activities disband in Greensboro for the
summer. So if you will forgive the fact that
most of my news is a year old and largely
personal, I will proceed.

In June of 1955 my husband and I sailed
to England to spend two months with son.
Brown, who was completing his two years
at Magdalen College, Oxford, on a Rhodes
Scholarship. \X'e arrived in time to see him
row for his college in the Royal Regatta at
HcnIey-on-the-Thames! We travelled around
together, and saw him receive his Oxford
degree at the ancient Sheldonian Theater;
an impressive ceremony lasting over two
hours, and every word in Latin. The inevi-
table tea. which we had begun to depend

on like the British, revived us at the con-
clusion of the ceremony.

We spent a month in the British Isles
and one of the most enjoyable trips was
the week we toured Southern England in
our little rented Austin car. We had a
lovely time visiting most of the old colleges
and wonderful cathedrals. We telephoned
Amy Williams Hunter from Winchester
and she insisted that we have lunch with
her at Malborough the next day as it was
not far away. Amy's husband. Tommy, as
she calls him, is the resident physician at
Marlborough, one of the loveliest and old-
est colleges in England. We had no trouble
finding their home, and entered through an
iron gate in an old brick wall surrounding
it. The home is hundreds of years old and
utterly charming. Amy is the same delight-
ful person, full of wit and little changed
in appearance, and her English husband is
equally attractive. There is a lovely garden,
typical of all English homes, and in the
living room a fire was burning in the fire-
place in spite of its being midsummer. As
we sat around it chatting. Amy remarked
that she always had a fire, and said, "In
fact, in all the twenty-five years I have
lived over here my feet have never been
warm. " She loves England, though, as we
did, and we were fortunate in having lovely
sunshine the entire summer. We enjoyed
seeing the college after lunch and their
handsome second son, who was playing
cricket. The older son. Peter, is married and
living in a far-away country (I forget
where.) We left the Hunters reluctantly at
tea-time, hoping it would not be .so long
before we could get together again.

Several weeks later we had the great
pleasure of being with another good friend
and classmate of '25. As you probably
know, Martha McHenry married Arnold
Halter of Gruneck. Switzerland, and they
invited us to be their guests and see their
wonderful little country that has always
managed to be at peace with the world.

We went by plane from London to Paris.
and while there Martha wrote us to meet
them in Geneva and she and Arnold would
drive us through the Alps to their home
in Thurgau. What a perfect way to see
Switzerland! Arnold and Martha were such
gracious, charming hosts, and it was not
only thrilling to see that lovely country but
delightful to visit in their beautiful home
in Gruneck. and get to know their three
fine sons. That week in Switzerland was
one of the highlights of our trip and
something we will never forget.

This summer of '56 has been another
eventful one in the lives of the Pattersons.
Daughter Eleanor graduated from the Col-
lege of William and Mary June 10. and
was married June 30 to Benjamin Dalton
Smith of Milledgeville. Ga. They will live
in Atlanta while Ben completes his gradu-
ate work in architecture.

Shortly after the wedding I went to Lake
Kanuga for a week and had the pleasure
of being with Mary Crai^hill Kinyoun. my
Sweet Briar roommate for your yeais. Mary
is the same grand person you remember.
She and another widow. Martha, built a
charniin.g cabin on the side of a mountain
at Kanuga. near Hendcrsonville, N. C. and
live there the year round except when they
go "a-tripping."

I go back to Lynchburg frequently to see

November, 1936

mother and often play briJ^t with Miss
Morenus. She has retired and lives in
Rivermont, not far from mother, and they
are good friends, playing cards together
every week.

This concludes my chapter, e.xcept to say
that we are happy that our son is going
into the ministry' and has completed his
first year at the Episcopal Theological
School in Cambridge, Mass.

Looking forward to hearing from the
rest of you.

Your old college mate.

Eleanor Miller Patterson

1926

Secretary: RuTH Abell (Mrs. Burnett
Bear), Pleasant Valley, Pa.
Fiiiid Agent: Helen Mutschler (Mrs.
Markel Becker), 15 Lake Howard Drive.
Winter Haven, Fla.

As you all can plainly see, Helen Becker
is our new Fund Agent. Wouldn't it be
great if our class could be the first to have
100% participation in contributing to the
Alumnae Fund this year? It takes only a
dollar from each of us to do it.

I am so indebted to Lois Peterson Wil-
son for all the news she has sent me for
both the June issue and this one. The fol-
lowing all came from her: Betty Moore
Rusk visited Marge Shepherd in Washing-
ton on the way to Reunion. Last spring
Peg Reinhold spent a day with Dot Booth
Cockrell in Christ Church, Virginia, catch-
ing up on twenty-five years of news. Seward
and Dot Keller Iliff vacationed in Bermuda
last spring. Man' ^"''' Burton of Charlottes-
ville visited Virginia Kirkljud McCray in
Galveston, Texas, last November. Karl and
Ruth Will Beckh visited Russell and Louise
Fuller Freeman in Fargo, North Dakota,
this summer.

Many thanks to Catherine Fjrruitd Elder
of Cucamonga, Calif., for her telegram
to 1926 at Reunion. Edna Lee Gilchrist is
president of the Women's Auxiliary of St.
Paul's Episcopal Church in Lynchburg this
year. The twins will be away at school, Joan
at Shipley in Bryn Mawr and Judy at St.
Catherine's in Richmond.

Peg Krider Ivey writes: "We live in
Teignmouth which is a most beautiful part
of England on the coast of Devon. Our
town is a seaside holiday resort and near
Torquay (the English Riviera), and Exeter
for big shopping and 41,2 hours to London.
As Gordon travels half the year, I have
the house and garden to take care of and
it keeps me busy with some of the anti-
quated means at hand. Have been active
in local clubs. We usually see the Cecil
Halfords twice a year and occasionally Amy
Williams Hunter (from Class of 1925)."

Helen Finch Haiford writes: "After a
three months' holiday in the States, we re-
turned to England for Christmas. Then we
went to visit our daughter, Helen, and our
adorable grandson in Yokahama. We went
to Japan by boat, renewing our youth
at Cairo by riding on camels to see the
Sphinx and the Pyramids. On our way back
from Japan by plane we stopped ofif at
Hong Kong and Bangkok (where due to
the influence of a friend we were treated
as V.LP.'s). The Deputy Prime Minister
gave a luncheon party for us. There was
no air conditioning and the temperature

was 110 in the shade. Our next stop was
Istanbul which I adored. We then flew to
Rome for five days, then to Paris to stay
with friends in Versailles. Our son, John,
recently finished his National Service where
he was a Lieutenant in the Queen's Royal
Lancers. "

Annetta Brown King writes that she is
working part time in Ken's office plus her
hospital and church activities. Their oldest,
Anne, and husband are dairy farmers at
Black Earth. 'W'is. Anne's oldest, Billy 10,
holds many trophies from horse shows since
3 years.

After 14 years of semi-urban living, the
Bears are once again among the rurban
(people who live on farms, but don't actu-
ally farm) population. We moved out to
our little farm last January, and love it.
Our 24 year old son, Burnett, is with the
Army in Germany, with 7 months of his
enlistment to go. Our daughter, Andrena, is
21 and will be a Senior at Smith College
this year. My husband and I are both still
much interested in scouting, he with the
boys, and I with the girls. That, plus
church, hospital, and housework keeps me
very busy.

1927

President: Madeline Brown (Mrs. Mc-

Farland Wood), Walnut Hill Farm, Hop-

kinsville, Ky.

Secreuiry: JuLiA Reynolds (Mrs. Robert

H. Dreisbach), 908 Kinnaird Avenue, Fort

Wayne 6, Ind.

Fund Agent: Elizabeth Mathews (Mrs.

Harry A. Wallace, Jr.), 327 Professional

Bldg., Charleston 1, W. Va.

Blessings on all you loyal friends who re-
sponded to my frantic pleas for news. Jo
Snouden Durham did such an excellent job
of collecting and passing on the news of
our class that it is right hard to follow her.
I didn't think of that angle when I told
Madeline Brou-n Wood I'd be glad to help
out and fill in as secretary until next June
when we can elect a new one. That re-
minds me — our reunion is June, 1957, and
this is none too soon to start thinking of
getting back to see all our old friends. I
just re-read this and see I've used that
word "old " too loosely. I'll be careful in
the future!

Jo Snouden Durham wrote that her
daughter Snowden adores S. B. She will be
a Sophomore in September. Taylor graduat-
ed from Carolina in June and was in Eu-
rope on the midshipman cruise this summer.
He will get his commission in August and
hopes to be a fly-boy. The twins are at
Episcopal High and Stuart Hall, respec-
tively, and will be juniors this fall. Jo and
Kenneth will be in New York this fall
and hope to see many 27ers. They are in
the phone book. We send our sympathy to
Jo in the loss of her mother in May,

Our ex-fund agent. Daphne Bunti:ig
Blair, will be on the Alumnae Council for
1956-58. Congratulations to her. She and
her husband and two boys flew to Europe
this summer for three weeks. They spent
two weeks on the Continent with Larry's
brother who is in Germany with the army,
and a week in London and Edinburgh.
They were to have the use of their host's
American wagon so expected to have heaps
of fun and cover a let of territory with a

trip down the Rhine and the Drama and
Music Festivals in Edinburgh being the
highlights of the trip.

Babe Albens Foltz wrote in August that
they were just back from a gay trip to New
Orleans. They had very pleasant weather
there but returned to 110 degrees heat in
Arkansas. Babe hopes to get to Sweet Briar
this November when she goes to Washing-
ton and Lee for Parent's Day. Tommy is
Phi Delt house manager there. Harry is at
Middlesex. Concord, Mass. (Editor's note
to Babe: In case I put either of your sons
in the wrong fraternity house or school, it
is because your card was blurred. Hope I
deciphered correctly.)

Camilla Alsop liyde and her husband re-
turned from seven weeks in Europe on the
last successful crossing of the Andrea Doria.
She said she adored the ship and the
thought of its sinking made her sick. They
spent a week in August in Charlottesville,
Virginia, for the opening of the new Miller
and Rhodes store there. Incidentally, I spent
a week in May with my daughter, Georgia
Dreisbach Kegley, at her home in Char-
lottesville and we watched with interest the
work being done on the new store at that
time. I can't wait to get back there and
see it.

Emily Jones Hodge is enjoying having
her daughter Sara home from her freshman
year at Mt. Holyoke. They are planning a
vacation trip to Canada before college
opens. Emily's son. Bob, has two boys, and
Emily plans to visit them near Westchester,
Pa., soon.

Ruth Lowrance Street has two grand-
sons. Gordon L. Smith III is 21/2 years old
and Preston Lowrance Smith is five months.
Frances Street Smith (Ruth's daughter) and
her husband and family live in Chatta-
nooga, Tenn. Ruths son. Gordon Jr., will
enter North Carolina L'niversity this fall.
Ruth very modestly didn't tell me of the
grand honor she received this year — but
Martha Ambrose Nunally did. Ruth was
chosen "Woman of the Year" by the Chat-
tanooga Newspaper Woman's Club. Con-
gratulations. Ruth, and thank you, Martha,
for telling me.

Martha Ambrose Nunnally has had an
eventful year. It began with her daughter
Alice's marriage at Christmas and hei re-
turn to Yale Graduate School, where she
completed work for her M.A. in teaching.
After that Alice went to Alaska with her
husband who is stationed at Ladd Air
Force Base, where Alice will teach this
fall. Martha's son, David, graduated with
high honors from University of the South
at Sewanee and will begin his pre-doctoral
work in Zoology at Washington L'niversity
in September on a National Science Founda-
tion fellowship. As if that weren't enough
excitement, David was married on Sept. 8th
to Judith Jones, a darling HoUins girl.

Elsie Morley Fink has been pretty much
home bound this past year as her husband
has not been well. Peter and Elsie (E's
two oldest) worked at the convention in
San Francisco. John, aged 16, has been at
Taft Summer School and returns there in
the fall. Ann. 15. spent the summer in camp
in Wisconsin and I imagine with all the re-
turnees coming back home right now that
E's life is anything but dull. I can still
remember the hectic few weeks between
summer camps and fall terms of school.

Altimiiae News

Pauline Payne Backus has sold her home
in Toledo and they arc building a new
home which they hope to occupy by the
first part of January. Pauline says she ex-
pects to be an authority on septic tanks
and disposals before they get it finished.
Meantime her address is Apt. C, 3-121 Mid-
dlesex, Toledo, Ohio. Pauline had lunch
with Rebecca Mjiniiiii; Cutler and Marge
Cramer Crane in New York in May. Hilda
Harpster (Dr. to her students) spent the
summer in Toledo with her mother and
sister's family. Polly says if we could see
Hilda wed know why she is the most
glamorous professor at U. of North Caro-
lina.

Helen Smyier Talbot's oldest son is a
Sophomore at Middlebury College, 'Ver-
mont. David is in junior high and Jean in
the 6th grade. Mary Kelly ]'iz.trJ Kelly's
offspring are as follows: Bill, 26, is in the
Army at Detrick, Marj'land; Douglas is a
second Lieut, in the Artillery stationed in
Korea. Eugene is a Sophomore at Yale.
Alice Eskeseii Ganzel with her husband, Ed,
and Penny, 12, and Kristina, 9, spent sev-
eral days at Sweet Briar. They stayed at
Mrs. 'VX'ills' and said her hospitality could
not be equaled and that she has many
scrapbooks about Sweet Briar which are
fun to look at.

\\"e send our sympathy to 'Virginia IF/'/-
S')ii Robbins whose father died in May.

Margaret Cramer Crane and her family
spent five weeks in Spain this summer. Bill
Jr. will be a freshman at Trinity this fall.
Cathy will be a senior at Rosemary Hall.
Marge was a dear and sent me quite a few
of the above items.

Elizabeth Mathetrs 'Wallace writes that
she had a card from Bebe Gilchrist Barnes
who with her son and mother visited Nor-
way and Holland. Margaret Schmidt and
daughter Ruthie visited the 'W^allaces on
their trip to and from reunion at Sweet
Briar in June. Peg Williams Bayne's daugh-
ter is at S. B. C. now. Ibby Litck Hammond
vacationed in Nantucket this summer.

To bring you up to date on the Dreis-
bach family: Georgia, our elder daughter,
is married to Jack Kegley and lives in
Charlottesville, 'Va., where Jack is a law-
yer. They have a 9 month old daughter,
Julia Reynolds Kegley, who is a dear. Geor-
gia went back to campus for reunion this
year with Jean Randolph Bruns, class of
'51, and had fun seeing old friends. Geor-
gia, Jack and Julia Reynolds moved into
their new home this spring and their ad-
dress is now 1603 Keith 'Valley Road.
Jerry Lou, our younger daughter, who trans-
ferred to Indiana University after two years
at Sweet Briar, graduated from Indiana
with high honor and spent last year in New
Orleans. She is a Graduate Assistant in the
Art Department at Tulane while working
for her master's degree. Bob and I flew to
New Orleans in June. Jerr>' joined us for a
vacation and we flew to Cuba, Yucatan, and
then to Guatemala for three fun filled
weeks. Georgia and Julia Reynolds visited
us in July, and now Jerr>' Lou and I are
about ready to drive her car through to
New Orleans again.

Orchids — or Sweet Briar Roses — to Mar-
garet Cramer Crane and Daphne Burning
Blair. Margaret deser\'es many plaudits for
having completed service as Alumnae Fund
Agent and Daphne for ser\ing as our Class

Fund Agent. Both did an excellent job and
we're proud of them. Do help our new
Class Fund Agent, Elizabeth Mathews 'Wal-
lace, to make this another top year for
1927. She will be giving many hours to
reminding you to send in your contribu-
tions. Please sit down for the few minutes
it takes to write your check and send it in
when she requests it.

Thanks again to Jo Snowden Durham
for the several years in which she was a
most successful and loyal class secretary.
Thanks, also, to all of you who sent me
cards and letters. Please keep it up. Don't
wait till I send out cards again. Just put
any news on a card as you hear it and send
it on to me. I'll guard it carefully till time
for next news letter.

1931

Secretary: Elizabeth S. Clark, 227 Bos-
ton Ave., Lynchburg, 'Va.
Fuud Agent: Perrone Whittaker (Mrs.
Robert H. Scott), 32 Whilman St., Ha-
worth, N. J.

You who were present for our twenty-
fifth saw how well we have stood the slings
and arrows of time and fortune. You who
received the Summer issue of this publica-
tion saw the beautiful group picture of us
with tulips. The rest of you who were
neither there nor saw us "in person" will
have to pine for the next five years over
having missed our famous reunion. The
only way to find out what you really
missed is to start now planning for 1961.

There is so much news I can not begin
to know where to start. I think you will all
be grieved to hear of the death of Meta
Moore McCotter'/ young son, Larry. He
died suddenly about three weeks before re-
union. Some of us who were at Sweet
Briar started a fund in his memory to go
toward furnishing the Chapel when it is
built. The Alumnae Association will han-
dle it and use it as designated. Additional
contributions may be sent to the College,
marked for this fund.

Did you know that we have a grand-
child? Maybe more, but I know of only
one. He is John Lord Hettrick, Jr. — one
year old in May. He is Fanny O'Brien Het-
trick's first grandchild. He is a cute thing.
Our "class baby," Carolyn Clegg. daughter
of Mary Stewart Kelso Littell, was mar-
ried during the summer to Gordon Johnson
of Berkeley, Calif. Stewartie could not come
to reunion because her mother had broken
her hip. 'Violet Andersen Groll brought her
daughter. Penny, with her to reunion. She
is a Junior at Bennington College. 'Violet
looks grand. She is Secretary to the junior
partner in a large law firm in Brooklyn.
Isabelle Bush Thomasson could not come,
but sent her picture. Very handsome. She
seems to be very busy and involved in
community affairs. She is especially inter-
ested in flowers. Her son. Burgess, now a
sophomore at Lehigh, grows camellias for
a hobby. Before he entered college he had
a camellia nursery business in the back
yard. "1. Bush's" younger son. Albert, is
the family athlete and musician. He plays
basketball, tennis, swims, and is proficient
on the piano.

Agnes Cleveland Sandifer's daughter.
Prudence, is a student at Sweet Briar, and
Aggie is on the Alumnae Council. It was

good to see her again. She is very distin-
guished with her iron grey hair. Ginny
Cooke Rea was at reunion, looked fine. Her
daughter, Ann, was again at Camp Alle-
ghaney. Later in the summer the whole Rea
family took a tour of the West. I received
a card from Cooke, Montana. If any of us
had ever thought we were showing signs
of age, we could look at Jean Countryman
Presba and be encouraged. She could have
passed for a sophomore any day. Virginia
Derby Howse answered the questionnaire
with the interesting fact that she and her
husband are the luckiest "adopted" par-
ents m the world. They have two, a boy,
Christopher, and a girl, Candy, ages 9 and
11. She says they are much worse than
grandparents.

In reply to the question about grey hair,
Naomi Doty Stead wrote that she wears
hers blue. Leiand Barbee Hill says she has
enough grey in her hair to prove she
doesn't dye it. Same with me, only the
white IS winning. Peg Hurd Burbank sent
me a picture of her beautiful daughter
Jane, aged 19. She also has a son, Fred, but
did not honor us with his picture You
should see Tillie Jones Shillington's darling
daughter. She sent colored snapshots of
John and Bill and Sarah. There was never
anything cuter than Tillie at the age of 18.
but Sarah is running her a close second!
The boys are wonderful looking. The
Shillingtons have bought a farm seventy-
five miles from St, Louis, and are having
fun fixing it up. Bill is working on the
farm. John is married and is with the
Army in Japan. I hear tell that at his wed-
ding some one asked if Tillie were his
sister.

This could go on forever, but will have
to be continued in our next. I have scads
of lovely information, so if you are in-
terested in the life and pursuits of your
classmates send a contribution to the Alum-
nae Fund and you will not miss a single
word. Please Note: "We now ha%e a new
Fund Agent. You did beautifully for Mar-
jorie. Please be as kind to Perr>'. This is
the year for lOO'/f contributions from the
class of 1931.

1932

President: Marjorie Miller (Mrs. I. F.
Close), 1475 Caledonia Rd., Town of Mt.
Royal, Quebec, Canada.
Secretary: ELIZABETH Job (Mrs. A. H.
Jopp), 503 Scott Ave., Pikeville, Ky.
Fund Agent: SusAN Marshall (Mrs.
V('. B. Timberlake), Ridgewood Rd., Staun-
ton, Va.
Howdy Gals,

Guess after 24 years it takes poetic li-
cense to use that greeting. Let's all get to-
gether next June at S.B. and prove that our
hearts are still young and gay. Yes. it is
our big year — our 25th reunion. Please
plan to be there. It will be such fun. You'll
be so proud to tell us all about your fine
family. Remember the Faculty baby-picture
show the A.A.L'.W. sponsored our soph-
omore year? How about having a picture
show of our own babies (big or little); we
want to see their pictures. We'uns who
ain't got no chillens will drool over yours.

Here are two wonderful letters to pass
on to you. Lib Doughtie Bethea writes
from Memphis, Tenn.: "Can you realize

November, 1956

that so many years have passed since we
graduated? I surely hiipc tii be at our re-
union next year. We have been living in
Memphis since 1942. Our 3 children are
almost grown now. Maury, age 17, will be
a senior at Miss Hutchinson's School this
fall. She is president of the senior class and
an all around girl. Ann Brandon. 14 goes
to the same school and is so full of life,
love of athletics and activity of all kinds
that it is difficult to keep up with her. Both
eirls are talented in music and are advanced
students at the Memphis College ot Music.
They're artistic too. In a recent nation-wide
contest Ann won two gold keys and a
scholarship offer for her water colors and
Maury won a gold key on her oil entry.
Our son Dick is 11, attends Presbyterian
Boys School, is all boy. and we all spoil

'"The last two years my music has 'gone
with the wind' but I do keep "P J'tii
church and children's hospital Nvork. Before
marrying I took Sweet Briar girls to Europe
^ven different summers. In 19M1 we took
up European travels again. First a group ot
debutantes, then mother-daughter groups
and family groups. It has been an education
for the children and has enabled us to shaie
our summers in a marvelous way. Will
make two trips to Europe this summer. I
get up the groups myself but work through
The Brownell Travel Company or Birming-
ham Alabama, and serve as their Business
Manager through the entire trip. Last sunv
mer lo Ann Roberts. Trudy BhmY Rob-
erts' oldest daughter, went with us. She is
a darling girl— really beautiful and we fell
in love with her. Trudy and her husband
Cavett were here early this spring. 'Trudy is
on her toes to keep up with her 5 children:
twin girls, two boys and Ann.

"We see Virginia Finch 'Waller often, Sa-
rah Philips Crenshaw occasionally, corres-
pond with Ted Clan Treadwell and Fran
Scenciiidivey Stewart very often. Don t
know yet where Maury will go to college—
but I have leanings of course toward Sweet
Briar Am planning to take her and Ann to
Hawaii in 1957 for a graduation gift.
(You should see the picture Lib enclosed
She looks almost as young and beautiful
as her t^vo girls— and Dick is a Junior
Apollo.)

Exciting and happy news from Alice
Dabiiey Parker: "Here's to report that
Betty Allen Magruder (Doctor to us) was
married on July 21 to Henry Dart Reck
He is a graduate of Dartmouth and Harvard
and is now working on his Ph.D. in history
at the University of Virginia. I was the
cause of it all. for I introduced them to
each other last summer. Neither of them
has been the same since! The wedding was
a lovely and dignified one at Betty Allen's
old home. After several weeks honeymoon.
Betty Allen will resume her practice of psy-
choanalysis in New York City and Henry
will complete his work on his doctorate in
Charlottesville. Then he expects to move to
New York and take up his career.

"Mine is the enjoyable situation of being
the mother of an upcoming Sweet Briar
sophomore. There may have been more en-
thusiastic Briarites, but you'll have to show
them to me. Fleming, my daughter, loves
every aspect of the life at S. B. It has been
fun meeting Tiny MiiishM Timberlake's,
Kay Oglesby Mixon's and Agnes Cleveland

Sandifer's attractive daughters. Many of the
familiar faces are gone, but enough of the
faculty are still on hand to make me feel
that I belong. Betsy, my second daughter, is
spending the summer playing in tennis
tournaments. She is 14 and very athletic —
incredible as it may seem in any child of
mine. I look at her trophies and marvel
greatly! "

Connie Fowler Keeble is working in the
Medical Illustration Dept. of the L'niversity
of Va. Hospital; her older son is in the
army, and her younger one is a freshman
in high school. Dorothy Smith Berkeley and
family are spending the summer at Mas-
coma Lake, Enfield, N. H.. where they
built a cabin last year, and are in the pro-
cess of adding to it this year. Their older
son will be a junior at the L'niversity of
the South this fall, and Judy a freshman at
SBC, Bucky a sophomore at Sewanee Mili-
tary Academy. Dorothy has part time jobs
in the Admissions Office there and as bi-
ology secretary, just typing and routine
stuff, according to her.

Yours truly, Jobie, has given up school
teaching. Husband Gus says its about time
when my former pupils begin turning up
with bald heads, grey heads and grown
children. All efforts are going to be con-
centrated on getting the '32ers out for their
25th next June. All suggestions, mottoes,
news, inspirational talks, travel hints — will
be gratefully received.

1933

President: Hetty Wells (Mrs. Frederick
W. Finn), 81 West Brother Drive, Green-
wich, Conn.

Secretiiry: Anne Marvin, 1518 Dairy Road,
Charlottesville, Va.

Fund Agent: Gerry Mallory, 169 East
Clinton Avenue, Tenafly, N.J.

Please be sure to contribute to the Alum-
ae Fund if you have not already done so,
thus helping to make our class 100% con-
tributing. If you do you will assure your-
self of receiving all copies of the News as
well. You will then be able to keep up
with the activities of our classmates — pro-
vided, of course, all of you write me about
yourselves. I will send cards to all as soon
as possible.

This October issue of the News goes to
■;// alumnae. Sweet Briar and I would ap-
preciate it very much if you could help us
locate any of the following girls, who are.
according to my records, lost. It is an ap-
palling list of names! Frances (Pat) At-
kinson, Sara Brown Palmer, Ethel Cameron
Smith, Elizabeth Cassidy Evans, Mary Clem-
ens Martha, Ruth Einhart, Jeanne Harmoh
Weisberger, Madeline Hawes, Eleanor
Hottenstein Foster, Nancy Jones Haley,
Catherine Kells Culberson, Margaret Milam,
Susie Nash, Martha Ellen North Pollitt,
Inga-Maja Olsson Nylander. Mildred Rahnt
MacDonald, Isabel Scott Bowen, Helen
Seaton, Alice Smith Myers, Mary Rose
Taylor Anderson, Virginia Vogler, Mary
Jane W'alne Marshall, Ann M"iitk/ns Boat-
ner, Glen Worthington Allen, Hannah
Wright Vosburgh and Sarah Zoller.

I had planned to have a great deal of
news for this issue gleaned during the sum-
mer months; instead I went for a wonderful
trip and let my news gathering go. My va-
cation was, as usual, the month of August.

I flew first to Paris where I spent a couple
of days with my six year old godson and
his lively family. We had a wonderful
time. Then on to Switzerland for about
thirteen days. This is a glorious country
and I had a perfect time there too with
many varied experiences, just a few of
which follow. From Montana I took the
cable car to Bellalui with its gorgeous view.
It was so hot and glarey that I bought
sunglasses. In Zermatt I got caught in a
hail storm and snow c-n the Gornegrat. The
view of the Matterhorn from Zermatt is
superb. Why anyone wt)uld want to try to
climb the Matterhorn is a mystery to me!
(The gravestones in a little church yard
tell so much: "died in a snowstorm on the
Matterhorn" — "died in a crevasse" —
"killed by falling stones.") I could write
reams on Switzerland, but will spare you
and go on to Edinburgh, Scotland. Here the
two main events were seeing her Majesty
the Queen and the Duke within touching
distance (they walked down the red carpet
and my feet were only a couple of inches
from the carpet). They are certainly a fine
looking couple. No wonder they are so
beloved. The next thrilling event was sit-
ting in the best seat at "The Tatoo" (on
the Queen's night) which as all of you
know is a spectacular military display at
the floodlit castle with pipes, urums, bands,
tartans, dancing etc. It is indescribable.
While in Edinburgh I stayed with two dear
Scottish ladies who are friends of mine.
Then on to Surrey for a delightful visit
with my twelve year old goddaughter and
her charming family. Next to the New
Forest, where I was fascinated by the pic-
turesque thatched roofs and the very pretty
wild ponies. (By the way those ponies are
dangerous as they are not fenced in at all
and are all over the roads, and people
feeding them or children playing with them
are often bitten and kicked.) They are
most effective and add much to the I-Jeiv
Forest. Then homeward bound August ^1.
This could be much longer, but enough is
enough about me.

Sincerely,

Anne Marvin

1935

President: Elizabeth Johnston (Mrs.

Warren W. Clute, Jr.); Watkins Glenn,

N. Y.

Secretary: Anne Baker (Mrs. Howard

L. Gerhart), Vineyard Dr., Rt. 5, Gibsonia,

Pa.

Fund Agent: Juliet Halliburton (Mrs.
Oscar W. Burnett), 1910 Lafayette Ave.,
Greensboro, N. C.

Before I begin my news I want to re-
mind you all of the Alumnae Fund. Please
send your contribution in today. Don't feel
that it must be a large donation to count. If
you contribute, I'll do my best to see there
is news in each issue of the Alumnae
News.

"Lav" Dillon Wintzer writes that last
year she moved into a home which she and
her husband had built outside of Wilming-
ton. The postal address is Montchanin, Del,
Lav has three children, Treu (13), Charles
(10), and Eliza (9) and a golden retriever
so we know she is a busy mother,

Hester Kraemer Avery gave birth to her
fijth child (fourth son) last spring. His

Ahitiinae News

name is Robert Lee Avery II. At present
writing she is at Carlisle Barricks, Pa.,
where her husband will be at the Army
War College for ten months. Perhaps she
will see Gretchen Geib Troup who is in
Harrisburg. Gretchen writes that they va-
cationed at Daytona Beach, Fla., earlier in
the year and at Stone Harbor, N. J., this
summer. Also last spring I received a card
from Virginia Ciiniinigham Brooks from
Calif, which told of a long vacation in
South America with her husband. She was
able to leave the two older children in
boarding school and the eight year old with
his grandparents.

Gee Gee and Robert Carpenter visited
Bob's mother in Pittsburgh and Betty
Thtinip.uiii Reif invited us in for cocktails.
On that occasion I decided that the three
of us had very nice husbands. Betty Reif's
son towered over all of us and made me
realize more than either of the girls the
passing cf time. Betty was getting ready for
another summer in Northern Michigan. Gee
Gee had a fine summer with a vacation of
two weeks in Maine and a week in Canada.
She, too, is back in harness again with
Brownie Troop, P.T.A. and College Club
activities. Lucy Hoblitzell writes that she
is back in the groove of teaching rugged
sixth graders (I have one) near Bethesda.
She had a wonderful tour of the Scandi-
navian countries and Europe. It's her sec-
ond jaunt to Europe as an aide to a very
able tour director.

Gen Crossman Stevens has moved —
across town so she still is in Birmingham,
Mich. The summer was spent at their home
on Saginaw Bay, the highlight being a two
week house party for five 16 year old girls.
Speaking of girls, Lida Read Voigbt
Young writes that she was in Washington
and New York this summer, and returned
to present her two older daughters at the
Cotton Ball in Chattanooga. Lida, her
eldest daughter, is attending the LTniversity
of Georgia. Of other alumnae daughters
comes news from Ellen Pvjit McGowin
that her daughter, Florence McGowin, has
entered Sweet Briar as a freshman this year.
So far this is the first daughter of our class
to go to S. B. C.

Mary Marks writes that she will be trav-
elling this year, since they are expanding
teacber training to include high school
workshops and conferences. Her home base,
however, is still at Richmond Professional
Institute. Mary says that Helen Wolcott
has been virus stricken this summer and I
hope is returned to health now. Marie
Schroeder Thomas is teaching in the Wil-
liamsburg High School. Her son, Cappy, is
in the Junior High and her daughter, Sarah,
is almost eight years old. With the short-
.age of good teachers, I admire all those
who return to it. Rebecca Marriner has
moved to the Pittsburgh area and is teach-
ing school in the Western Pennsylvania
School for the Deaf. She has been in Staun-
ton, 'Va., and this summer took some courses
in audiology at Northwestern. Cary Bui-
u'tll Carter is in North Carolina now where
her husband is Headmaster of Summit
School. The family spent the summer at
Camp Grctnbriar, W. Va.. where Nick was
director. She saw Ginny Bohhiil Shuffle, but
gave no more details. Her children are
Ann, 15, and Chick, 12

Alice Laubach writes of a wonderful
vacation to Canada, 4500 miles, visiting
Quebec, Montreal, around the Gaspe and
through Nova Scotia. She w'rites that the
weather was perfect which is more than
one can say for many parts of the U. S. A.
News of Blandina Jones Skilton whose old-
est son entered Cornell this fall comes from
Judy Peterhus in Cleveland. Judy also saw
Alice McClnskcy Schlendorf who with her
husband and three children has moved
back to Cleveland from Fla. Elizabeth
Myi-rs Harding says that she will be heading
back to S. B. C. for Alumnae Council meet-
ings. Her summer has been busy with
sailing, especially with the National Atlan-
tic races. After her return to S. B. C, she
and Ken hope to go on a Carribean cruise.

After struggling to get four children ofi'
to school this fall, that cruise sounds heav-
enly to me. Howard and I did have our four
week trip (flying most of the time) to
Europe last spring. We stopped off in Scot-
land to visit St. Andrews and I felt youth
returning as I uMched a Saturd.iy night
impromptu — no different from twenty years
ago, even to the chill in the dance hall
which only a Scottish reel could remove.
We spent time in Denmark, Germany
(skiing at Garmisch) and then went into
Italy which was the highlight for both of
us since neither had been there before. We
returned via Switzerland, Holland and
London, where I had a wonderful time
with old friends (very little sightseeing).
This is a thumbnail sketch of (to us) a
perfect remedy for all known ills.

One more item of news before I leave.
I took my usual pilgrimage to Northern
Michigan with the children to see Mother.
Passing through Lansing I stopped to look
up Rusty (Eleanor Ruu Mattern). The re-
sult of that 15 minute call was that she
and Bob with the two boys drove up for a
visit on a later weekend. W had a per-
fectly delightful visit. Our boys had a
great time together, especially John and
Peter, and only Ann suffered. Being the
only girl, she came in for much teasing.
We are looking forward to future contacts
in summers to come.

All those who received cards please
return them so I'll have ammunition for
the next issue.

1938

President: Mary Talcott (Mrs. E. Griffith
Dodson, Jr.), 122 27th St., S.E., Roanoke,
Va.

Secretary: Helen Dorothy Nicholson
(Mrs. John A. Tate, Jr.), 28-10 St. Andrews
Lane, Charlotte, N. C.
fund Agent: MoSELLE Worsley (Mrs.
Quigg Fletcher), 804 Peachtree Dr., Co-
lumbus, Ga.
Dear Class of '38:

It has been so good to reach into the
mail each morning and find your reply cards
to me. Some of you went beyond the call of
duty and wrote letters for which I thank
you immensely. The first one to arri\e was
from Pollyanna Shutwell Holloway in Baton
Rouge, and she wrote of an unexpected
but wonderful \isit from Florence Ciien
Crosnoe and husband (of Texarkana) from
whom we've heard little in past years. How-
good to hear of their trip with son Caven,

15, on their way to the Gulf Coast. Ralph is
in the aerial cropdusting and seeding busi-
ness. Flossie brought word also of Mildred
Pharr Clark who also lives in Texarkana,
and the three families are eagerly antici-
pating a reunion at the Arkansas-L.S.U.
game this fall. The Holloways themselves
went to Sewanee last June for Robert's re-
union and saw Virginia Gt/ild Colmore
who's prettier than ever. She has three
boys. Polly is her usual busy self as presi-
dent of her church Women's Auxiliary,
and making preparations to build a new
home. Her three active children keep her
extra busy, but this summer they relaxed at
Rainbow Springs, Florida, where they
learned to water ski. Rcjbert has learned to
fly, and Polly says she's trying to be brave
enough to flit around the country in his
Cessna with him. She sends love to every-
one.

The next letter came from Mary Thomp-
son Fabbrini of 1360 Jones St., San Fran-
cisco, and just like Mary, it literally bub-
bled with personality and cheer. Thanks to
the con\ention of Wine & Spirits Whole-
salers in that lovely city, she got in a great
\isit with Vesta and Eddie Haselden.
Mary's husband is with Beaulieu Vine-
yard wines and Eddie with McKesson-Rob-
bins. They also ran into each other later at
Las Vegas and I'm sure that was fun. In
May and June the Fabbrinis were in New
York but didn't get to see any Briarites as
she was busy haunting shops frr her new
apartment on top of Nob Hill with the
"most divine view." Mary is editing the
Junior League magazine of San Francisco,
Spectator, which is "the size of a thin Neu'
Yorker, if not the quality" — fun but work.
Mary gave me new-s of Nell Winship Mon-
gold of whom we've had very little recent
word. After many years in Olive Branch,
Miss., wJiere her husband, an American Air-
lines pilot, was based, and where they lit-
erally built their own home (written up in
Parents' Magazine) and got it just right,
they are being sent to Atlanta. The Mon-
golds have two little boys and one darling
little girl. Mary urges everyone to descend
on S. B. en masse in '58. I agree!

"Shanghai" Gregory Marrow writes me
from Tarboro, N. C., that she was in
Charlotte for the A.A.LI, sw'imming meet in
August. She had two boys on the squad,
not champions yet, she says. Her Jim, 9,
made a good showing in the midget boys
class. She promises to call me when she
and her husband join mutual friends of
ours here for Davidson Homecoming.

From Toledo Dotty Gipe Clement hap-
pily writes of the arrival of their fifth child
on March 3, another future Briarite. Su-
sanna, making a total of four girls and one
bey. The summer was spent quietly at
home, but come fall. Dotty will resume Girl
Scouts, Jr. League, etc., taking time out for
a trip to Denver with John in October.

Nancy McCatidlish Prichard heartily rec-
ommends to all mothers the type of vacation
she had this summer — 2V'2 weeks al home
while her husband took all three children
by air to Montana. She is pleased with the
outcome of the Democratic convention and
hopes for a Democratic preference in No-
vember. (Dear Nancy: I'll have to cancel
your vote!)

Great to get a card from Dee Annfield

NovrMBKR. 19^6

Cannon just 70 miles up the road, but
might just as well be 70U, for all our visits
in the past! She reports that she will have
three children in school this fall, and one
in kindergarten. She's County Chairman for
Girl Scouts. Dee proudly announces that she
has a niece at S.B. — Saliie Millis Armfield.

I'm sure we must be setting a record with
this statement of fact — Denise Diipont
Zapffe has eight children and her card was
mailed from Minnesota where they were all
vacationing at their summer home on Gull
Lake, North Brainerd. Denise. Jr., is a
senior at Stuart Hall, and is quite a swim-
mer for along with her mother .swam Gull
Lake (5 miles) last year. This year Denises
9-year old daughter and 12-year old son
swam across Gull Lake, 1V2 miles. All the
family is no doubt now back in Baltimore
■where they make their winter home.

The cards as you see came from all over.
Here's one from Louisa Giiice Prince, in
Phoenix, Arizona. She says they miss Caro-
lina but the girls think it romantic they
-were born in Charlotte. Leslie 16, and Helen
14, are sweet tall blondes, and Prairie, "the
Terror," is 6. Charlie is a cotton buyer and
life in Arizona is really something. They
hope to send the girls somewhere East to
college. Last winter at a Junior Assembly
formal she ran into Janet Forhusb Mead who
with her family was spending Christmas
there, on the last leg of a world tour which
took more than a year. Louisa wants to
know where Peggy Greene Michel is and
requests a letter — 1147 E. Lawrence Rd.

Mildred Gill 'Williamson and Fritz Cor-
des Hoffman and their families joined
forces this summer at the 'Williamson's
summer cottage on the James River. A great
time was had by all. Mildred says four
cute girls are entering S.B. this fall from
Petersburg. 'Va., a record.

A card from Helen Hays Crowley in
Shaker Heights tells of taking a refresher
business course followed by a new job
in an advertising agency last year . . . three
days a week. Eventually she wants to work
full time but now her job coincides with
children's school hours. Carol is in 10th
grade, Jim 8th. Helen's work is highly
technical — service manuals of all types for
aircraft, making a "rough repro," layout,
paste-up and then final. Pages are photo-
graphed and printed from negatives!

Kay Hoyt says she's back at her same
school job after a nice summer and vaca-
tion in Lakeville, Conn. She likes her work
more and more. Good to hear from Ida
Ted/nan Pierce in Richmond who had just
bought a house and moved in. She is glad
to spread out at her new address, 25 Libbie
Ave. Ida tells of Gene Brock Hawley visit-
ing her family for a month, and what a
good time they had. Gene lives in Cleveland
now. I was also glad to know you have
met Mary Jones, wife of Union Theological
Seminary's president, a lovely person and
gocd friend. Hope all you Richmonders will
go see her.

Betty Bowley Phillips has been living at
922 Mason Headley Rd., in Lexington, Ky.,
for a year and a half. Her husband, Frank,
is airport manager of Blue Grass Field, and
son Bob is three years old. Betty says she
doesn't get around much but to tell every-
body "hello."

The word from Lucy Taliaferro Nicker-
son in Fair Haven, N. J., makes me envious

of her summer. They stayed at home, and
with the children and their motorboat, filled
their time with fishing and crabbing and
ocean. Also from New Jersey is a card
from Lucile Seriieani Leonard, who lives
and keeps a busy life at Pompton Lake.
They went to Oklahoma this past summer
to visit Earl's family, but the rest of the
time she was busy in her house and vege-
table garden. At this point, she is resuming
PTA, Cubs and choir activities.

Jin Faulkner Mathews says she hasn't
been doing a thing interesting, just busy
with children, car pools, etc, with spring
and fall trips to Florida last year to see
her family. A train trip to Huntington dur-
ing the summer showed her airborne chil-
dren that mode of travel. Jin is planning
towards our 20th in '58 as I hope all of
you are doing.

"Sammy" Hamilton Schuck at last hap-
pily brings me up to date. Husband, Con-
nie (Conrad), is associate professor of Eng-
lish at N. Y . State College for Teachers at
Buffalo, and also very active in dramatics
at the Grand Island Playhouse and Studio
Theatre there. Sammy tags along to paint
scenery sometimes, and also is busy tagging
along after her two Little Leaguers, son
Peter, 13, an ex-L.L. catcher, and Robbie,
10, pitcher. All very busy and happy.

From Janice Wiley Adams, Campbell Rd.,
R. D. No. I, Bernardsville, N. J.: '"We have
made a move locally to some windswept
meadow land on top of the Bernardsville
mountains. The orchard's begun, and sheep
and horses in time." Janice also wonders if
she's flexible enough to keep a cradle-to-
high-school approach, since her children's
ages range accordingly.

It's good to hear what wonderful vaca-
tions some of you enjoyed. Billie Heizer
Hickenlooper has just returned from a
marvelous five weeks in England. Her hus-
band. Bo, went on business, so they took
the four children, and she drove 2500 rainy
miles, saw everything with the youngsters
and met "Bo " for weekends. They had a
7-passenger Bedford Dormabile, sort of like
a small blue and yellow bus. All back in
school now after a super-educational sum-
mer.

The Tates had a quiet time, literally, as
both children were away at camp, Caroline,
14, at Rockbrook in Brevard, for her fourth
summer, and John, 9, at Pinnacle, near
Hendersonville, for his first month away
from home. We had a week at High Hamp-
ton while they were away, and it was right
uncanny the number of Briarites we dis-
covered, either before or after our time
there. Becky Young Frazer and her family
were there and we had a great time remi-
niscing. Also Louise Kirk and Bull Headley,
Martha Jean Brooks and Tommy Miller,
with whom we had hilarious fun. And over
at Rockbrook Parents Day whom should I
find but dear ol' Mozelle W'orsley Fletcher
and her husband Quigg. Their daughter
Emily was also a camper. "Mo" is won-
derful as always, and says she's played a lot
of golf this summer but just before dark, so
as not to have a sunstroke. She adds a plug
for our Alumnae Fund and says to coop-
erate and give, when you hear from her
this fall. Also at Parents Day was Mary
Elizabeth Barge Schroder and handsome
family.

As I hadn't heard from Vesta recently.

who unfortunately had a bad case of pneu-
monitis this summer, I picked up the phone
yesterday and called her. We chatted a spell,
and she sounded great, but had no news of
S. B. chums, except to tell of the fun witii
Thompson in S. F. She said "hey" to one
and all.

Rilma Wilson Allen continues at her
usual busy pace. She, Lottie Lewis Woollen
and I joined forces with three other girls
and had a wonderfully relaxed time at
Garden City Beach for four days this past
May. She spent most of the summer hauling
Robert back and forth to the Club pool,
which is near me, so stopped in often. Over
Labor Day she was at Myrtle Beach witii
Martha Matheti'S Monroe.

It was a real joy to see Wileyna Upshaw
Kennedy and her husband. Bob, when they
visited in Charlotte this past July. Both
look wonderful and we had a lot to catch
up on. Their 2 boys, Robert and Divid,
were in Camp Yonanoka at Linville, V. C,
and most convenient to reach from here.
However, Bob and Wy stayed only a few
days before going on to Atlanta. They were
planning to be back in Linville for the
Ladies Golf Tournament as Wy is quite .i
fiend at the game. Both boys also play quite
well. As you no doubt know, the Kennedys
still live in Eufaula, Ala.

No other news. But if your name isn't
in this, it's because I haven't heard from
you by this deadline. So pay your money
and get the next issues.

Love,

Dolly Nick

1939

President: JULIE SANDERS (Mrs. Richard
A. Michaux), 4502 Dover Road, Rich-
mond, Va.

Secretary: Jean Oliver (Mrs. E. Alton
Sartor, Jr.), 546 Unadilla Street, Shreve-
port. La.

Fund Agents: Mary Elizabeth Barge
(Mrs. WiUam H. Schroder, Jr.), 2628
Habersham Road, Atlanta, Ga.; Sarah
Belk (Mrs. Charles G. Gambrell), 125 E.
S4th Street, Apt. 6-A, New York, N.V.

It looks as if all our classmates are off
to the usual fall races — what with school
and routine activities starting anew for the
year. I'm ready to flop down on a deep pile
of Ann Park's pet Zoysia grass at her enter-
prising Calverton Zoysia Farm in Norfolk,
Va., and review that good old summer va
cation in North Carolina. Ann seems to
have the answer for all busy people — she
holds down two jobs — from 9 to 5 works
for Luria Steel and Trading Corp. on
Standard time in the morning and Daylight
in the afternoon, and lovingly tends that
Zoysia grass in whatever time there is
left. And you think you're busy !

Several others rather wistfully hark back
to pleasant summer vacations. Judy Judd
Patton traveled all the way from Eugene.
Oregon, to Minnesota for a family reunion
with her sister Phoebe Judd Tooke, ('38)
who lives in Shreveport. Mary Jeff Welles
Parson also visited John's family in Minne-
sota after a flight to Denver from Luray,
Va. — much to the thrill of the children
aged 5, 9 and 11. Kay Richards De Lancey
and Bob also f!ew to Colorado with their 4
children to partake of Pikes Peak, a rodeo,
and a gold mine before going back to

Alumnae News

Kec-ne, N. H. Kay's enthusiasm for S. B. C.
decided a friend to enter as a freshman this
fall, so let's all talk it up. By the way,
don't forget to pay those dues so we can
all have a hand in the Sweet Briar of today
and receive the Alumnae News.

Happy jamei Wathen spent the summer
in Maine, and saw Nancy Nolle Lea and
family. Back in Washington, D. C, Happy
had lunch with Betty Frazier Rinehart (on
a visit from Tulsa with her husband) and
Jean McKeriiiey Stoddard who was getting
ready to depart for 2 years in Florence.
How Jean gets around ! Those three
pledged to return to S. B. C. for our 20th
reunion tho', so maybe the rest of us had
better join them for the fun. Jane Hnlderi
■VC^alker paid a brief visit to the campus
enroute from Chattanooga to Washington,
N. Y, C, and Boston. That was her first
return since she was there as a freshman,
and she had fun "showing husband Jack
and sons Jack and James where mother
spent first year in college." Jane is now
busy as chairman of a children's play put
on by Strawbridge Productions of N. Y.,
and sponsored by A A U W.

It's a big thrill seeing college friends
again, as several girls report. Mary Lou
Simpson Bulkley enjoyed the Junior League
Conference in Quebec all the more because
"it turned out to be a miniature S. B. C. re-
union." She saw Happy and Henri Minor
Hart, plus others of the younger genera-
tion. However, Mary Lou was snowed in
for a N. Y. reunion in the spring with
Florence Swift Durrance who was there
with her husband, a professor at the LTni-
versity of Fla. That made Florence appre-
ciate her balmy climate all the more, and
she has "a special welcome mat for all
S. B. C. friends headed south for a vaca-
tion." Mary Lou has received glowing let-
ters from Janet Ti-osch who is stationed in
Trieste with the \J. S. Government. Betsy
Camphell Gawthrop went up from West
Chester, Pa., to N. H. and Maine, and one
day had lunch with Dutch H.mher Crowe,
Mardie Liuie Lafayette, Lucy Lloyd and
Anne Rump. Betsy saw Boot Vanderhill
Brc^wn and family at the 20th Haverford
reunion of their husbands. Betsy has a
cousin, lane Holderman, now at Sweet
Briar. Mary Mackintosh Sherer had a visit
from Mar>' Treadway Downs — Tready and
Fritz were on their way to Vermont, cele-
brating their 10th anniversary. Mary Mac
is thrilled to be moving Nov. 1 into a new
home in Holden, Mass., and "the home and
view are worth a trip."

Augusta Saul Edwards thinks parents of
triplets are lucky — she has 3 P.T.A.'s,
what with a 1'5 year old son in High, a
12 year old son in Junior High, and an 8
year old daughter in elementary school in
Roanoke! Also, church work holds her
interest this year. She chats S. B. C. with
next-door-neighbor Martha Rector McGee
('40).

Jean Blaci Deland is also building a new
house, and is moving Nov. 1 to Wilton,
Conn. Jean "would love to know who is
in charge of things around Wilton", so
you New Englanders help her out!

Gertrude Robertson Midlen in Washing-
ton has our deep sympathy for the death of
her father and aunt during this past year.
She hopes to visit S. B. C. this fall.

Ronnie Mann Hawkes in Boonton, N, J„

writes that she and Stuart are enjoymg
their farm and riding daily. The oldest bc.y
is a naval pilot in Japan, the next boy is
at Hamilton, and the youngest at Brov/n.
They flew to Maine and enjoyed the Alla-
gosh Canoe trip, and were ready to Irave
for San Francisco and the American College
of Surgeons. Nancy Beard Dix writes that
she stays home in Baltimore because her
husbanci, Parks, "constantly travels ov;r the
U. S. for National Plastic Products Co., and
is delighted to settle on weekends." Tneir
Anne is almost 10.

A "catch-up" note from Mary Spear Roo-
ney says that they arrived in San Mateo,
California, by devious steps after her son
Peter developed asthma in Annapolis. Peter
is now nearly 18 (asthma cured) and a
sophomore at Stanford, and Mary keeps
busy driving with the Red Cross Motor
Corps. She wishes she could see some S.B.C.
classmates, and says "hello to all." Margaret
Myers Glenn reports from Long Beach,
Wash., that she and Frank have a year old
fourth son, Jonathon David. Patty Bah
Vincent announces the arrival of Mary Dean
on Mar. 21st to join Simon 7, and Sarah 6
in Durham, N. C. I know how busy these
mamas are, as 18 month old Oliver keeps
me in a storm — to say nothing of Ibby and
Balfour at 10 and 7 !

"J. O."

1940

President: Helen Schmid (Mrs William
H. Hardy), 2740 Lake Drive, S. E., Grand
Rapids 6, Mich.

Secretary: Muriel Barrows (Mrs. James
F. Neall), 64 Niles St., Hartford, Conn.
Fund Agent: HoRTENSE Powell (Mrs.
Prentice Cooper), Shelbyville, Tenn.

At last a few brief words from our Presi-
dent! Her letter is so newsy I will quote it
verbatim;

"We are spending another wonderful
summer at our cottage at Macatawa, Michi-
gan. It is even restful this year on the
beach for the five seem to be able to hold
their own in the water. For so many years I
stood knee deep in water ready to pull out
floundering souls. It's a joy to relax. Bill is
14, Ed 12, David 9, and twins. Bob and
Syl 5, enroute to school in the fall. Be-
sides children we house a fairly good sup-
ply of pets, too. At the moment we number
one dog, one bird, one eighteen pound
turtle from the Mahaje Desert, a fish, and
the latest acquisition, 8 baby possums left
motherless in the nearby woods.

"On the 24th of August, besides celebrat-
ing our Ifith anniversary, we are expecting
an overnight visit from Blair Bunting Both
and family on their way north. I'm sure you
know they have moved to Winnetka, Illi-
nois (Sec. note: address is 529 Cedar St.,
Winnetka) and seem to be loving it. They
have rented a large old house tor the sum-
mer months. Helen Cornwell Jones was sup-
posed to have stopped on her way to Char-
levoix, Mich., this summer with family, but
plans went awry. They had a wonderful re-
union with both sides of the family, how-
ever, in Charlevoix, and hope to come back
next summer via Grand Rapids. Am glad to
hear of all the Class Slim Jims — I struggle
to hold my own and am now on Coronet
Blitz Diet."

And an airmail from Emory Gill Wil-
liams was a most welcome reply to my

request for news. She deserves to tell her
own tale:

"Canny Lancaster Pasco and Merrill have
just bought a lovely house on Crupthill
Road, and they are doing it all over. Canny
is Godmother, incidentally, to our tliird
daughter, Melinda. They have three boys
and a girl. Jane Goolrich Murrill and Tom-
my are the glamorous ones this summer!
They had a glorious trip to Europe in late
May, were gone about 4 weeks, and visited
England, France and Italy. We have seen
pictures of their trip, and it looked too di-
vine for words. Jane deserved that trip —
she had just completed a tour of dutv as a
very successful Chairman of Garden Week
in Virginia. That was a tremendous job
and a great honor for anyone as young as
Jane.

"Mary Petty Bedell with husband Wood
and four sons have been traveling all sum-
mer. She first went to Charleston, S. C, for
a visit with Wood's mother, and now 1
understand is on a trip with the family in
Canada. Ann Adamson Taylor (Godmother
to my eldest daughter, Dabney, now 12,
and I am godmother to her Sally) is still
living in Baltimore and loving it. She
recently had a lovely trip to the Homestead.
Hot Springs, with her parents. Canky and I
had a superb trip to Bermuda in May — our
first glimpse of that heavenly place — and
the two weeks were too short ! Now back to
the grind with our five plus the dog
Mitzie."

Word from Newport, Va., tells of
the adoption, last December, of a son. Ma-
son Cooke, to William and Ann Cooke
Gilliam. Jane Balser Grant, who has been
lost, is now found, in Brunswick, Maine,
Route No. 1 to be exact. Actually, it doesn't
seem to be too exact, but all the address
she seems to need. Phoopie Burroughs Liv-
ingston has done it again — moved that is!
She has leapt from the wilds of Pc^rtland,
Maine, into E. 90th St., New York City,
with the two girls going to Chapm. Ap-
parently Henry has a job with Morgan
Stanley (some connection with f. P. Mor-
gan, I understand > and the family has been
in Hudson, N. Y., at his ancestral home
since early summer. Now at last someone
to stand in line for "My Fair Lady" the-
atre tickets!

And now one and all, send in your
check for the Alumnae Fund right away.
Remember, no check, no chatter.

1941

President: Joan Devore (Mrs. John E.
Roth, Jr.), 2719 Hampshire Ave., Cincin-
nati 8, Ohio.

Fund Agent: Evelyn Cantey (Mrs. An-
drew B." Marion), 11 Trails End, Green-
ville, S. C.

Secretary: Margaret Stuart Wilson
(Mrs. Kenneth H. Dickey), 1902 Ash St.,
Texarkana, Ark.

To those of you who were unable to at-
tend our nth Reunion, let me extend our
real sympathy. We had the niost wonderful
time that you can possibly im.igine, and we
surely missed each of you. Martha Jean
Broolis Miller and Louise Kirk Headley had
thought of cver>'thing to make Reunion per-
fect. Twenty-eight of our class were there,
along with about 175 other returning alum-

NOVEMBER. 19''6

nae. I thought you'd like to know w litre
they live now, too —

Anne Boroiig,h O'Conner, Montrose, N.Y.

Lillian Brtedloie White, Glenmore, Pa.

Martha Jean Brooks Miller. Charlotte,
N. C.

Evelyn Cantey Marion, Greenville, S. C.

Frances Chichesler Hull, Fredericksburg,
Va.

Elizabeth Colley Shelton. Lookout Mt.,
Tenn.

Margaret Craighill Price. Washington.
D. C

Judith Davidson Walker. Quantico. Va.

Joan Derore Roth. Cincinnati, Ohio

Decca Gilmer Frackelton, Fredericksburg,
Va.

Helen Guhiii Wallace. Leesburg, Va.

Barbara Holmaii Whitcomb, Wellesley,
Mass.

Betty Irvine Phillips. Warwick. Va.

Louise Kirk Headley. Tallahassee, Fla.

Louise Lembeck Reydel. Plainfield, N. J.

Helen Anne Litlletun Hauslein, Wayne,
Pa.

Lucy Lloyd, Downingtown, Pa.

Anita Loiirig Lewis, Carlisle, Pa.

Joan Myen Cole. Rosemont. Pa.

Emmie Lou Phillips Lohmeyer, Philadel-
phia, Pa.

Mary Scully Olney, Fulton, N. Y.

Laetitia Seibels Frothingham, Sewickley,
Pa.

Patricia Sorenson Ackard, Denver, Colo.

Peg Tomlin Graves, Lynchburg. Va,

Betsy Toirer Bennett, Irvington-oti-the-
Hudson, N. Y.

Helen Va/soii Hill, Rochester, N. V.

Margaret Stuart Wilson Dickey, Tc-xar-
kana. Ark.

All our class roomed on 2nd floor Reid
— wonderful for many confabs and bull
sessions until the wee small hours. Saturday
■was the only rainy day. with Paint and
Patches luncheon and President Pannells
Garden Party held indoors. Those who
have not yet met Mrs. Pannell have a treat
in store. She is most gracious and attrac-
tive — just what you would choose the pres-
ident of SBC to be like. Also. Sweet Briar
House looks beautiful — fresh paint, car-
pets, exquisite Brussels lace curtains and
silk damask drapes, and other furnishings
in keeping with the period of the house,
even to the Payne family's rosewood piano,
that Daisy Williams used to play when she
visited in Lynchburg. Daisy's room up-
stairs is precious, all redone as they think
it was when she lived there.

That night after a lovely dinner, we had
more fun seeing many movies of our senior
year — Founders' Day, May Day, and Grad-
uation — that Martha Jean Brooks Miller had
brought (with projector and screen) !
Craigie (Margaret Craighill Price) and
Decca Gilmer Frackelton were constantly
taking flash pictures of everyone, so at 2()th
Reunion, we'll have more to see. The Bac-
calaureate Service was excellent, and Sun-
day afternoon Joan Brophy, '53g, presented
a beautiful vocal recital, followed by Step
Singing, and Vespers in the Dell.

Mrs. Lill, our class sponsor, is also spon-
sor for 1931, having its 25th Reunion; so
Miss Mciller kindly invited us to have our
picnic at her home, on the little road past
Sweet Briar station. Betty brine Phillips
and Emmie Lou Phillips Lohmeyer ( Betty
married Emmie Lou's brother, remember?)

arrived complete with husbands, who were
officially made honorary members of the
class, in recognition of such excellent bar-
tending and waiter services.

Let me interrupt again to say many
thanks to those who returned the ques-
tionnaires, especially those sending pictures,
Martha Jean had put them into a big scrap-
book, and we nearly wore it out, reading
and re-reading about all of you whom we
missed so much. PLEASE, if you didn't re-
turn yours, fill out and return the new one
that I have sent you, PLLIS SNAPSHOTS,
so our book will be complete.

Sunday night wfe saw an excellent play,
written and directed by two '51 alu.mnae,
Joan Vail and Ruth Clarkson Costello, .is
the Alumnae contribution to the 50th Anni-
versary Celebration. These girls, and a cast
of 1 1 from the New York area, had re-
hearsed several hours nightly (after full-
time, day time jobs) to put on a very pro-
fessional performance — in the gym, with
no formal stage, curtains, orchestra, ui
other so-called essentials.

Commencement was all we remembered,
with final awards and much excitement,
even to a personal letter of congratulations
from President Eisenhower, which you saw
reproduced on the June News cover. Also
veiy exciting were several large gifts to the
Development Program, announced by Mrs.
Pannell. Some of our illustrious group h?d
brought caps and gowns and looked qui'.e
academic (tho' the gowns were slightly
green from years in the attic). The Alum-
nae Association annual meeting was at
noon, followed by Open House at many
faculty homes, for real personal visirs witfi
old favorites.

Monday night was the Banquet, with the
tables beautifully decorated with Sweet
Briar tulips that Helen W.itson Hill and
Phoebe Roue Peters ('31. incoming Alum.
Asso. vice pres.) had brought from Roches-
ter with them. They were unbelie\ably
beautiful, with huge blossoms and deep
colors. The program that night was delight-
ful, given by Lucile Barrow Turner. '20, of
Lynchburg, whose hobby is collecting ne-
gro spirituals and other songs.

Tuesday morning was Alumnae College
— Sweet Briar's philosophy that learning
does not cease with graduation. The lec-
tures were very stimulating and interesting;
two by older faculty members, and two by
newer additions to the College.

We really missed each and every one of
you who were not there. Tish Siehels
Frothingham and Elizabeth Colley Shcltcn
are still as beautiful; Evie Canley Marion is
as tiny; Louise Kirk Headley and Joan
DeVore Roth are as full of fun; and Sweet
Briar is still the same wonderful, friendly,
incomparable place. We had almost no trou-
ble recognizing each other, even after 1 5
years. In fact, it was quite consoling that,
having been acknowledged as the ughest
class that ever went thru SBC. we made
such a handsome looking bunch of lanior
Leaguers. Many figures were slimmer than
in college athletics days, and grey hairs
were scant — tho' Helen Anne Lil'hton
Hauselin was breathtaking with a (sprayed)
.grey Italian hair cut. We talked until wee
small hours every night, and had the most
fun that you can possibly imagine. It was
amazing how much in common we had
with each other, tho' from New England,

Florida, Denver, and "three blocks from
Texas." We were staggered at the great
number of offspring, also the similarity of
interests and activities — church, Junior
League. Brownie and Cub Scouts, away
from home; and most important, family,
gardening, sewing, and cooking.

Little Evie ("the mighty atom, also the
perfect roommate," as she wrote in my an-
nual) and I decided we stayed in the
wrong room, since she is the new Fund
Agent, and I am the new Secretary; whi.h
brings me to a most important point. As
Margaret Cramer Crane, retiring National
Fund Chairman, explained, each ol us
counts either FOR or ACiAINST Sweet
Briar. When a Development Program
spokesman approaches a corporation or
Foundation for a gift, the first question
asked is, "How many alumnae contribute
to your Alumnae Fund?" This year Sweet
Briar rose from 20th to 7th in rank, among
391 colleges and universities, in percent.ige
of conlrihiiling graduates. We rank 12th
among women's colleges, in total (graduates
and x's) participation. So whether your
gift is |1, or $1 for each year since gradua-
tion, or « 1,000, YOU COUNT. BesicI'S
that, your gift means that you will receive
the Alumnae News in March and June. I
took this five year job only after the solemn
promise from each girl at Reunion that she
would write me at least one letter a year,
and you know that you want to keep up
with everybody's activities.

So please send your gift (deductible, of
course) to Evie or the Alumnae Office, and
let's do our part to help Sweet Briar im-
prove its statistics. If you haven't been ba''k
to the college recently, you would be even
more impressed by it, from our more mature
perspective. It is truly a unique, marvelous
place.

Our thanks again to Martha Jean and
Kirk for such a perfect Reunion; to Betty
Irvine's and Emmie Lou's husbands; to Mrs,
Lill and Miss MoUer for entertainment;
and a special award for unselfishness to
Shirley Devine Clemens, whose plans were
all made to attend Reunion, but who stayed
home because her step-daughter's best beau
was going into Service, and Shirley had a
week-end farewell house party for them and
two other couples.

1942

President: Catherine Coleman, Hannah
More Academy, Reistertown, Maryland.
Secretary: Helen Sanford, 2731 Steel
Street, Houston, Texas,
Fund Agent: Mary Ruth Pierson (Mrs.
H. T. Fischer, Jr.), Bay Crest, Huntington,
N. Y.

Next spring will be the 15th anniversary
of the graduation from Sweet Briar of us
incomparable folks who made up the Class
of 1942.

The deadline for this letter is upon me,
and since I have failed (as usual) to dig
up any current news, I will take advantage
of this splendid opportunity to reminisce
(how do you spell that, anyway?) about the
days when Sweet Briar reached its glory;
i.e., the years between 1938 and 42. And -f
all this brings a tear to your eye, tak^- that
fountain pen in your trembling hand and
write out a check to the Alumnae Fund.
For it's due date again, and the Fund
Agent's eye is upon you.

Alumnae News

Some of you would be stunned for sure
could you see the ridiculous notes in your
handwriting that are being preserved for
posterity in my yearbooks . . . and in good-
ness knows how many others. And I shud-
der to think what I may have written in
yours. Very likely something on the order
of "It was lovely sitting next to you in
Classical Civ this year," which I probably
considered very humorous at the time I
wrote it. Actually, as ! look back on it, I
don't remember that there was an/thing
about Classical Civ that was particularly
lovely. To tell the truth (and I hope the
faculty will never read this), I can't even
remember what Classical Civ was about.

I do remember French, however — Fresh-
man French with Mr. Rosetti and Sopho-
more French with "Pop" Worthington —
including the quiz we had on Les Miser-
ables before I had read it. It was the first
time in my career that I had ever made an
E. (It was by no means the last). Alont;
this same line, I have only recently for-
given Miss Elizabeth Jackson for callini? my
hluff when I wrote a Sophomore English
essay comparing Beowulf with the Red
Knight of the Faerie Queen. It's true I
hadn't read either Beowulf or the Faerie
Queen, but it hurt my feelings for her to
notice it.

I seem to recall that during my Fresh-
man year I never slept at all (Polly P<-\r"n
Turner probably remembers this better than
anyone); but that by the time senior year
came around I simply had to have my sleep.
This was age, I guess; or maybe the result
of rooming with Betsy (now Betsy Gihuer
Tremain), who always fell asleep in the
middle of studying for exams, however firn,
her intentions to the contrary.

For some reason I can remember the
words (or snatches of them) for almost
every song we sang during our 4-year ten-
ure — beginning with that gem, "Three Eit-
tle Freshmen in a Great Big School" and
including our senior-year tear jerker, "Go-
ing Home, going home; Time has come to
part . . ." The Senior Play songs are par-
ticularly vivid. Remember that classic chant
(written, I believe, by Douggie Vo-^ris
Sprunt) that went: "Once long ago, when
the world was new, and we were young and
carefree . . . We wandered off to a moun-
tain top in a burst of intellectual curiosity
. . . etc. etc." And of course the real key-
note song:
"It's 42 . . . it's 42

Can't you see by looking at us that it's
true.

In years gone by it was such fun

For then the cry was '41 —

In years to come, but not for me

It will be fun being '43.
"I'll always stay

Right from this day . . .

There's no other one will ever, ever do;

Until I die

I'll always cry

A roaring, booming '42 !"

If nothing else, this should prove to you
that I have a good memory — which, after
ail. is what got me through college.

I hardly need remind you now that 1957
will be a Reunion Year for the Class of '42.
I hope we'll have a crowd of '42ers in at-
tendance; but in the meantime, how about
sending me old songs, old snapshots, old
tales, etc., and I'll set up a collection of

memorabilia to have on hand at Reunion.
While you're at it, send some current news,
will you?

And for goodness' sake . . . don't forget
your contribution to the Alumnae Fund!

1945

President: HARRIET WiLLCOX (Mrs. David
F. Gearhart), 980 Juniper Rd., Hellcrtown,
Pa.

Secrei.iry: Anne Dick.son (Mrs, G. S.
Jordan), Bay Colony, "Virginia Beach, "Va.
Fund Agent: Julia Mills (Mrs. Lawrence
Jacobsen), 4416 Edmonds St., Washington,
D. C.

September finds me, after a wonderful
summer, sweeping the sand out of the
house and the children out to school. It's
very quiet here at the Jordan's with only
one little one left at home this year.

Betty Zidick Reuter and Don were at
"Virginia Beach for a couple of days in May.
We had a grand reunion. Zu looked won-
derful and her husband, Don, is most at-
tractive. From here they went to Greens-
boro, N. C, where they saw Mary Hjskins
and Jet King and Wash Feir/er Ramsey
("48) and husband. John. Then on to Sea
Island, Aiken, S. C, and finally Lookout
Mountain. Zu says you must put the latter
on your visiting list. "Hedy Edwards Dav-
enport had a dinner party for 24. Sara
Te?nple Moore, Hilda Hude "Voigt, Betty
Avery Duft, Mill Curothers Healy were all
there. What a time we had. Everyone"s
children were darling and there are thous-
ands of them."

A recent card from Hedy follows this up.
She says she hated to say good-bye. She
told me more news from the Mt. Hilda
Hude Voigt and Bill are ready to move into
a lovely new house. Sara Temple Moore
and Tom made a flying trip to Fort Worth
to see Gloria huplon Tennison and family.
Betty Avery Duff, who is recovering nicely
from an operation, heard from Lyn Dillard
Grones. She and Don are now stationed in
Germany. The Davenports have a girl baby
(child No. 6, girl No. 4) named Mary Su-
san, born July 19. also a newly remodeled
old house with "space." I'd say Hedy needs
space with that ever-increasing clan.

Edith Fjrr Elliott and I have been cor-
responding lately. It all started over house
plans. Ours came from Americun Home
Magazine. A couple of years ago they did
an article on this particular plan with a
picture of our house among others. Edith
had seen it and wrote me about the plans
which I sent to her. She writes that they
are still looking for a suitable site and
will send me pictures when it is all com-
plete. She says Bunny Gray Wilson had a
girl, Elizabeth Stuart, in May. She now has
two girls and a boy. Her husband. Bob, is a
radiologist and they have a lovely new
home in Richmond. Jinx Gans Brown's
third daughter, Susan Van Doren, was
born last January.

Betty Pender Lazenby and her three
children (two boys and a girl) were here
for a month visiting Betty's aunt. I didn't
see half enough of her. but we did have
lunch together one day and talked each
other to death. We were hoping Dick
would get orders back to Norfolk this year.
They built such a cute house here and
then were transferred to Annapolis a few

months later where they've been for three
years. However, they got orders to Moffet
Field, Calif., near San Francisco, so I'm
afraid it will be several years until we see
the Lazenbys again.

Please send me Christmas cards with
news and pictures. Meanwhile don't let the
election bandwagon make you forget the
Alumnae Fund bandwagon. Let's all get
aboard and make our class 100% !

1946

President: Adeline Jones (Mrs. Stephen C.
Voorhees), 1604 Louden Heights Road,
Charleston, West Virginia.
Secretary: Polly Vandeventer (Mrs, Ro-
bert Saunders), 16 Shirley Road, Warwick,
Va.

Fitnd Agent: Lucy Charles Jones (Mrs.
Robert Bendall II), 406 Randolph, Dan-
ville, Va.

I had hoped to get this in the June issue
hot on the press, but it was too late. Hope
it doesn't seem stale to you by now. The
changes and developments will be gleaned
for the next issue.

A word of regret and "missed yous" to
all who weren't on hand at our 10th re-
union. Am sure no one was overlooked in
our thoughts and reminiscences. We de-
voured your news, which was collected in a
scrapbook by Catherine Smart Grier, and
stared holes through your pictures. Return-
ing to S.B.C. is really something and I
hope our enthusiasm will somehow reach
you all through various channels to inspire
an even larger gathering in 1961. One mem-
ber remarked at the close of the weekend;
"Just think, we have known each other now
for 14 long years!" If that doesn't im-
press you, it does !ne\

Now — back to le subject, I shall report
on those who were there and a bit about
each one. There were 25, plus 8 fine hus-
bands, the latter contributing tremendously.
(If they were long-suft'ering, there was
nothing of the martyred look!) Our
Southern belles, Sarah McDuffie Hardaway
and Wister Wain King, were up from
Georgia with husbands, Ben and Jack. Each
couple left 3 children home (but not the
golf clubs). Wis entertained in Lynchburg
at a cocktail party, which I hear from the
earlier arrivals, was a great success. "The
one and only Bass" ('46 Briar Patch), and.
as he introduced himself. George Norris
BASS, were very much present — except
for time when jubilant George was out
shooting 79's on the golf course. They have
-> children, a boy and girl. I hear the girl
is a carbon copy of Bass. BRAVO! They
stayed in Amherst with Ellen Thackery
Wilson and her "Nip," whose young
daughter's picture I didn't see. A disap-
pointment. Lee Stevens Gravely and her
husband, Lee, were up from Rocky Nfount
with Shields Jones Harris and Charlie.
(Monsieurs Gravely and Harris had time
deluxe, no two ways about it!) Lee hooded
her sister, Anne, and looked like an under-
graduate herself. I wish I could have
pointed out Shields to the entire community
as our exquisite May queen — put them all in
their places! They are both mothers of 3 but
our scrapbook is not lucky enough to have
their pictures. Caroline Rudolph Sellers had
a picture of her 3. however, and I don't
blame her. Her husband. Phillip, came

Novi;mbi:r, 19'>6

with her and Polly Pollard's rejiiark about
him was: Couldn't have found Rudy in
better hands! (She is still running, in case
you are wondering, and Phillip is almost as
bad.) Speaking of puns — or something —
it's always treats to see wheats, — and Ed-
wina Young Call treated in royally. Her
young Doug Call III agrees with her splen-
didly. I bet he is a live wire. Speaking of
live wires, ■ — you should have seen Helen
GraefJ at 3:00 in the morning imitating a
British comedienne. Such a versatile Graeff
— playing the organ every Sunday at a
church in Martinsville, 'Virginia, and per-
forming histrionics in the wee hours. In-
credible! Another wonder to me is Nancy
Doud Burton, mother of 2 boys, who
claims her interests are "Men and boys and
who hasn't given and why," 'We will really
have to rally around Dowd now — she is the
new Fund Chairman for the entire Alumnae
Assocition! 'We can rally by sending Cholly
Jones Bendall, our new class Fund Agent,
those nice big checks (or even nice small
ones). Cholly, too, has boys, — 3 of them.
She looked terribly exotic by candle light at
the Banquet, as did Helen Muichiion Lane
(see how many speeches I didn't hear?)
who was a stunning model for some Jack-
sonville coutourier all weekend. I saw her
four children in the Spring so can vouch for
their loveliness personally. Quality .vad
quantity. Mrs. Lane. Excellent! Dottie
Ciildtrell Crowell was radiant; she has 2
children and under interests on the ques-
tionnaire she remarked, "Narrowing down to
family fast !" Martha Titterington Reid is
the mother of 3, but again I was disap-
pointed by no pictures. 'Wish St. Louis
were not so far away. Twitter — or Jackson-
ville so far away. Tody. To think that we
can sit back and hear Tody Corcoran Hart-
zer completely free of charge — and to think
I charged her to ride back to Norfolk with
me ! I wish her husband, Joe, and son, Jeff,
could have seen her seeing 'Williamsburg
for the first time. She made us swell with
Virginia pride, as did Bea D/nguell Loos
with '46 pride when she received that gr.-at
big silver bowl for the 'Washington dub.
Ade Jones 'Voorhees' contribution of 3 chil-
dren is right in step with '46 and looks
like her contribution is a stellar one. She
also finds time to go to Quebec to National
Conferences of the Junior League — and to
room right across the hall from Wis at
that! Her "amazing combination of dignity
and horseplay" (yearbook) is still amazing.
She had a difficult time arousing Jean
Carter Tilford from a nightmare. I hear.
It's not surprising that Carter is active, even
in her sleep. Never heard of so many ac-
tivities or anyone so well informed. I
think she reads all the newspapers and mag-
azines. A wonderful inspiration. Carter! As
Betsy Gurley Hewson wrote. Anne Hill Ed-
wards hasn't changed an "IOTA" and is
still her "effervescent self." Anne is the
mother of 2 boys and teaches piano as well
in Philadelphia — no more Amherst.

Polly Pollard Kline is another who
amazes me — 4 children! (but not a pic-
ture). Motherhood agrees with her, ap-
parently, and has kept her wit as sharp as
ever. It was one of the nicest aspects of
my trip sharing transportation with her and
Boots Taylor Hollowell. mother of 3. Boots
is another combination of mother and
league worker who is thriving. She's a stim-

ulating talker to boot. Ever talk to her until
4 in the morning?

Another passenger in my car — last but
not least — was Rosie Ashley Dashiell, our
jack-of all trades. She has 2 children and
still has that wonderful knack of walking
the tightropes Anne Morrow Lindberg was
talking about with wonderful CALM.

I wasn't among the lucky ones to see Flo
Cameron Kaupman who stopped by S. B.
Saturday night enroute to Texas from tour-
ing Europe. Reports are that she looked
lovely and all are grateful to husband, Ike,
for bringing her to her beloved Sweet
Briar, a long way from home. Another long
way is Seattle where Mary Vinton Flem-
ing is settled with a brand new baby boy. A
long distance call found a happy, proud
■Vinton and brought a bit of her right into
our midst. (Were there any other phone
calls I missed?)

The youngest baby on record in our class
is that of Catherine Smart Grier — Roy
Smart Grier • — who was born May 31 and
whose picture, believe it or not, is right
in there with the other '46 children. I
couldn't have been more amazed ! Congratu-
lations, Catherine, for your new member
(4th child) and thank you from all of us
for your excellent job with our class scrap-
book. We were sorry you weren't with us,
but understand perfectly !

We were sorry, too, that Ariana, our
tried and true secretary for the last 5 years,
wasn't there so we could thank her for all
her labors in person. We appreciate all she
has done and I only hope I can do as well.
(I am just beginning to realize it's no small
job, so cooperate, please!)

A word about myself. (I owe it to my
family — everyone else is making the print.)
I am completely happy with my Bob and
Liza and wonder how I e\er got along
without them. Am still trying to learn some
of these housekeeping secrets others seem to
have up their sleeves.

Sorry I cannot devote a dozen of those
blue exam books to each of you and hope
I haven't left out special specials in these
brief sketches. (At this point I doubt if
the Alumnae office will think them brief.)
Please write me when I pump you for
news, or even if I don't.

1947

Secretary: Cynthia Bemis (Mrs William
A. Stuart, Jr.), Rosedale, 'Va.
Fund Agent: Margaret Ellen White
(Mrs. James M. 'VanBuren), 21 Townsend
St., Walton, N. Y.

Summer in the country is still in full
swing, but the bureau of vital statistics
goes on. Peggy Robertson Christian delight-
ed all the Robertsons and Christians on Ap-
ril 16 by presenting them with their first
grandson — Stuart Grattan Christian, Jr.
Frankie Gardner Cuttis had a daughter, Cor-
nelia Caren, on February 1st — and a great
big baby she was, too. Stu McGuire Gilliam
had a daughter, Catherine, in June. Judith
Burnett Halsey and I arrived at the hospital
almost together. Her daughter, Eugenia
GriflSn, was born on May 17, and my daugh-
ter, Catherine FitzGerald, was born on May
18. Jackie Schneck Thompson called en
route from Winston-Salem back to Cleve-
land but I had gone home to produce. She
had a son, no details, on Jan. 22.

Ann Colston became Mrs. Edward Leon-
ard on June 8. Ed is a doctor doing research
at the National Institute of Health and they
live in Bethesda. Maria Tucker became Mrs.
Edgar Bowerfind, Jr. (also a doctor) on
April 28. A letter from Maria is radiant
despite culinary confusions. Eleanor Bus-
teorth is now Mrs. Edgar Shannon, Jr.
They came through Abingdon this summer
on the way to visit Sara Bryan Glascock.

My life, at present, is its usual hectic
self, the end of canning season in the coun-
try, you know. One child is having his lirst
experiences with the school bus. another is
wishing she could go too and the littlest
one is trying to grow up in a hurry so she
can play too.

It seems that in June we will have our
TEN YEAR reunion. Mercy! That's some-
thing none of us should miss. If the 5
year one was fun, think what this will be!

1948

President: 'ViRGINLA WURZBACK (Mrs.
Richard S. Vardy), 69 Maine Rd., Key
West, Fla.

Secretary: Mary Jo Armstrong (Mrs.
Arthur H. Berryman), 1302 Avenue C,
Galveston, Tex.

Fund Agent: Elizabeth Beltz (Mrs. Wil-
liam F. Rowe, Jr.), 4829 Kensington Ave.,
Richmond, Va.

Bless you for answering my letter. It is
always a joy to hear about you and your
families and it's actually fun to write the
newsletter when I have something interest-
ing to tell.

New homes are big events this fall.
Westray Boyce Nicholas and Roy devoted
the summer to the Dutch Colonial house
they are building in North Tarrytown. N.
Y. Martha Darn Barnes and Waddell are
new home owners in Macon, Ga. She says
it's in a new "young" section with lots of
playmates for young David. It's a cottage
type of chocolate brown brick with a
beautifully landscaped yard. Besides the
new house she's in a whirl of fall activi-
ties for the Junior League and the Medical
Auxiliary. "It's startling to list present and
permanent address as the same !" says Jeanne
Morrell Garlington. It's a middleaged house
with a brand new kitchen and lots of room
— four bedrooms and a den so she can put
up any '48ers who pass through Savannah.
She saw Mary Barrett Robertson in the
spring. By Thanksgiving, Louise Day Mc-
Whorter and Tom hope to be in their honit
which is spiced with "traditional" provincial
flavoring. Her boy started to kindergarten
this fall. Arthur and I had dinner with them
when they were in Fort Worth this sum-
mer — a most delightful evening.

Two weddings since my last letter. "Kit-
ty" Doolin married Robin Dickey, a Marine
Captain, on August 4th. They'll be in An-
napolis until the summer, 1957. The wed-
ding sounded lovely from the clipping and
I noticed Mary Pierce was there. On April
28 Rosemary Gugert married Kenneth Chew
Kennedy and they are living in New O'-
leans. She's been working with the Re-
publican party and was elected to the Lou-
isiana State Central Committee and as an
alternate delegate to the Convention. Mar-
tha Davis Barnes was in her wedding —
and I hear Sylvia Saunders Davis is back

Ahimncie News

in New Orleans since her husband com-
pleted his tour of Navy duty.

Patricia Caiisler Covington says it's the
"same old happy, peaceful, busy life —
children, house, golf, garden. Junior League,
Red Cross and church. " Mary Culson Coni-
stock has been busy workin.g on the house
and the yard as the flood last year did a
job on it. They did get to the beach
though. On Nancy (T) SiiiJer Martin and
Billys yearly visit to Ponte Vedra, Fla., in
August, they stayed at the Innlet the same
time Peggy Sheffu-ld Martin and Tom were
there. Blair Cnires Smith has moved to
Philadelphia as Breton will teach at Temple
University.

Ann Orr Savage spent a week at Sea Is-
land in May and some time in Vermont this
summer. She is treasurer of the Short Hills
Junior Service League Thrift Shop and is
president of the Sweet Briar Club of
Nrrthern New Jersey. And Marguerite
Riicker Ellett is president of the Richmond
Sweet Briar Club. Her Susan, aged 6, has
started first grade and Teddy, agtd 4, is in
nursery school. Bess While Gregory is ad-
ding a wing to her house and Liz Bellz
Rowe is busy preparing Sara for nursery
school after a round last spring with dec-
orators, painters, etc. She spent the month
of July in Ohio and took the children to
Virginia Beach for a few glorious days in
August. Sally Pearre has just returned from
a three week trip by car through Holland.
Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium. She is
still working for the State in the Depart-
ment of Legislative Reference which is con-
cerned mainly with legal research and draft-
ing of bills for state legislators. And she
has started law school in the evenings at
the Lfniversity of Maryland.

New Mamas: Peggy Addington Twohy. a
daughter, Anne Dabney, March 19. Martha
Sue Skinner Logan, a son, Brightman Skin-
ner. March 23. Martha ALmsfieU Clements,
a daughter, Elizabeth Ann, June 26 — 6 lb'
1214 02. Alice Ann (Sanny) But man Bel-
lows, a son, Vincent Butman, July 4. Caro-
line //iW^f"// Simpson, a son, Burney Joseph,
August 2.3. Betty Stevens Hayvvood, a son,
James Revere, July 7. Audrey Laliman Ros-
selot, a son, Mark Smith, July 17, 7 lb.
10'/2 oz. Incidentally, Bob has been assigned
to Vienna with the State Department and
she will join him in Oct. Ann RowLwd
Tuck, a daughter. Mary Barbour, Sept. 14.
The baby arrived the ve.-y morning she
wrote me. Marge Neiens Rackett. a daugh-
ter, Elizabeth Ann. March ">. She tells me
Patty Dameron Joy, husband and two chil-
dren are now stationed in Hawaii.

Mallory IIV/^/;./ Warren bought a new
house last winter but said it took them
months to get settled. They went to the
Greenbriar m \X'hite Sulphur Springs with-
out the children and then took Malloy and
Kay with them to Florida for a week in
August. Other beach visitors were Sally
Snuth Williams and family. They had a cot-
tage at Gwynn's Island on the Chesapeake
Bay. They are great water ski enthusiasts,
and are owners of a new French Poodle
named "Daisy Williams." Martha Owen
went to Europe this summer on a tour of
France. Italy, Switzerland. Germany. Bel-
gium, Holland and England. She went over
on the Oueen Mjry and came back on the
Queen Elizabeth.

Jane Leach Cromwell had an emergency
appendectomy in Dec. Blair Graves Smith
visited her en route to Philadelphia and
she was looking forward to a visit from
"Weezie" Lloyd before she left for Europe.
Nanc7 Vaughn Kelly saw Kay Berthier Mc-
Kelway just before the Kelly's went to
Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and Providence
on vacation. She talked to Ardis Fralus
McBride the day before Ardis moved in to
their new home. According to Nancy, Mc-
Call Henderson went to school part of the
summer and spent the rest of the time
on a gala house party at Rehoboth Beach.
Nancy is Washington's bulb chairman for
the Sweet Briar Club with Frances Robb as
her assistant. I can hardly believe Jane
McCaffrey McBrian's daughter, Sarah, is
beginning the third grade; jimbo is in kin-
dergarten. They spent the summer on Long
Island and plan another trip to New York
in October.

Closey Faulkner Dickey had a son, Law-
rence Witherspoon, Nov. 7, 1955. She is
still loving living in Wayne, 111., and has
become a gardener of sorts, and says their
tomatoes, asters, marigolds are really beau-
tiful. According to her, she's doing nothing
creative, cultural or philanthropic other
than raise her t^vo blue-eyed blond boys to
contribute to the human race! They also
have two interesting cats and an 80 pound
Labrador Retriever who is more trouble
than a baby. I'd say she had a busy life.
Mary Anne Goodson Rogers had a quiet but
delightful summer. She and Warren had a
week's vacation at Cumberland Falls sans
children. Anne has started to school. She
has another girl. Betty Carol, and a boy,
Warren Pope, who are still at home. Mar-
tha Sue Skinner Logan wrote from the
beach as they were there for two weeks.
She said Liz Graves Perkinson was hit by
a car in April while in Daytona. She broke
a leg, was cut and bruised and had to
stay in bed several months and is still on
crutches. Hope she's feeling on top of the
world now. Was so distressed to hear about
it.

Another sad bit of news was the death of
Ann Paxson's father in June. Bea Backer
Simpson and her husband, Charles, and
their two boys, Bobby and Tommy, stopped
by to see Ann while they were vacationing
in Maryland. After 8 years Ann is still with
L^SF&G (casualty and surety insurance) and
loves it. She treks to the various Branch otfi-
ces, to Lansing. Mich., Toledo and now San
Francisco and Los Angeles. Ann started
a company newspaper over a year ago which
is distributed to I6OO employes and was its
editor until recently when other activities
took up too much of her time. Nan Sleptoe
McKinley and Ann got together recently
for a grand gab feast. Nan. her husband
Stan and baby girl Jeanne are now living
in Baltimore. Jane Shoesmith Newcomb
again spent the summer in New Hampshire
on Lake Winnipesaukea where she and her
husband Nels run a summ'^r place called
Pick Point Lodge. Ann "Tommy" Porter
Mullen snent the summer in Kansis City
with children, vegetable garden, dog and
flowers until August when with her two
children (Ned and Betsy, born Oct. 18,
1955) she went to visit her family in Rhode
Island. While there, she saw Lois Gale
Harris and Peggy Pierce McAvity. Lois has
moved back into Providence so her husband

could be closer to work and Cindy could
find some playmates. She visited Priscilla
Masten Thurber and Tom last January-
out to dinner in an ice storm and back to
play bridge. She also received a surprise
and very welcome overnight visit from Peg-
gy Pierce McAvity and daughter Priscilla.
Patty Traugott Rixey has been in Rich-
mond with Jack who has been there for a
special session of the legislature to deal
with the segreg.ition problem. Indie Und-
''O Bilisoly and Peggy Addtnglon Twohy
spent one night with them and they ran

Sandbn 1 't ^'T' ^""^^^ '^^^ ^een a"
Sandbridge Beach this summer. She gave

\,^y^ ^r^'''^ l'''.'^' '" -'"ly f°^ Sylvia
Saunders Davis before she left for New
Orleans. Ihe outdoors bit Chuck, Martha
Garrison Anness' husband, so they spent
much time at home and in the yard pam-
pering their 100 plus rose bushes. StuaTt
tier son, is m nursery school.
, Vickie B,w,^ Badrow has moved to Hast-

?s1an?" a"'''"" ''•'^^" N'^'^ ^^' become as-
sistant Associate Director of St Christo-

HaTr^;'""!j T "i"'^^' ^"^y- Meon ^""".
Harrison and Arch visited them and West-
ray Boyce Nicholas and Roy came over
to loin the reunion. Felicia Jackson Whelets
dropped in on Martha Frye Terry in June
Martha and her family spent some t"^e th's
summer at the beach in Windy Hill S C
hne Taylor Ix had her third son. [effre;
Drayton. Jan. 4. Betsy Plunken W IharS
«;.I1 be returning to the U. S. early ,n 957
She says they are slightly waterlogged in
the rainy season in the Philippines. She and
Gerry went to Hong Kong in May Martha
Mansfield Clements and Wally expecV to go
o Europe with the Army. Martha is veep of

BLv7^r^'7 t ^- ^'"''' ^"'J I hea
Be tv r-h " ° ^'^ T-"""'^ '" December.
Betty Gibson is working for an ad^•ertls-
ing agency.

■J,l^^^ ^,7" ^'^'■'■^ 'P^"f fhe summer
in the Eas to escape the heat of a Louisville
summer. (She should have been in Texas
—over a hundred for 25 days.) She saw
Mary Pierce ,n Washington. She's a Foreign
Service officer. All three of Peggy's children
are in school this year. Martha Rouan Hy-
der spent the summer remodeling and deco-
rating their home at the lake. It's enchant-
ing with a delightful and unusual deco-
rative touch.

Thanks a lot for writing. Best love to
you all.

1949

p. W^v/; Preston Hodg'^s (Mrs. Eugene
Dubose Hill, Jr.), 122 Don Allen Rd
Louisville 7, Ky.

Secretary: CAROLINE Casev (Mrs. C. Cole-
man McGehee), 5504 Monumental Ave
Richmond 26, Va.

Fund Agent: Catherine Cox, 4390 Cedar
Ave., Philadelphia 43, Pa,

I have at last received the file, it came
about a week ago, so I hope to do a better
lob from now on. One piece of news which
was omitted in the last News was the
birth of Margaret Tower, Talmans and
Carter s little girl, Helen Reynolds, on Oct
2. 1955! And here are some bits gleaneci
from copies of the Junior League Magazine-
Joan McC.irihy Whiteman and Wcs had a
daughter, Ruth Kimball, on Ian 7 Ann
Higgins Rappleye and Willard had a son.

Nc)VI;mbhr, 1916

Charles McMillan, born Jan. 22. And Alex
and Mimi Seiinnei Dann's Kathtrine Mont-
j!onicry was born Dec. 31. 1955. Under
Spartanburg. S. C, was listed that Thomas
A. and Elizabeth SirickLiiid Evins had a
daughter. Elizabeth Strickland, on Apr. 3.
As Betty is listed as LOST in the Alum-
nae Office, I do not know if this is the
same rne. Perhaps someone can set us
straight.

Kitt>' Hart was married to Chapman
Henry Belew, Jr., on August 31 in St.
Paul's Church here in Richmond. Kitty was
a lovely bride and they both looked so
happy. "Chappie" is in Law School at good
old Lf. Va. and they will live in Charlottes-
ville until Feb. when he graduates. Kitty's
sister Nan Hiirl Stone was her matron of
honor, and her other sister Antoinette Hart
Moore was in the wedding. I was also one
of the attendants. Ever-thoughtful Kitty
handed me some letters with news the dav
before her wedding. Ruthie C.nietr Preucc-1
wrote: "Carter had Hugh 'Van Devanter
Slatery, her third boy. in early August.
She looks wonderful and her house ru-s
smoothly in spite of Herbert, Jr., and
Charles running around at top speed. " And
Kay Veitsey Goodwin wrote Kitty; "Dave
and I celebrated our sixth anniversary
Sept. 2 (how time does fly) and Dickie was
5 a few days later and started kinder-
garten this fall. Davey is an active 3V2
year old."

Margaret Long Freas came to my rescue
with a gigantic epistle which I shall quote
almost in its entirety. She and Howard .ne
living with Dr. Long in Philadelphia, and
she writes; "Howard is now a Field Ass .-
ciate in the Evaluation and Advisory Di-
vision of Educational Testing Service in
Princeton, N. J.' They were written up in
Time in early Aug., but in case you don t
see that magazine, his firm is responsible
for the administration and printing, and
scoring and interpretation of educational
and psychological tests, the most famous
of which are the College Entrance Exams
and the Graduate Record Exams. Howard's
particular job involves visiting schools and
colleges that use the ETS tests on the East-
ern seaboard and in the Middle 'West, and
helping them in the interpretation of
scores, administration of the tests, and
what have you. He also does consultation
work with institutions that are planning to
set up a testing or counseling program.
'When he drives, I get to travel with him,
and we've seen a good many of the cla'.s
of '49 this last year.

"Peggy Quynn Maples is living in do-
mestic bliss in Frederick, Md., with two
darling little boys and husband Sam who is
an HO gauge model railroad fan as is
Howard. The two men discussed "pikes"
while Peg and I visited. She is active in the
AAfW in Frederick and both ihe and
Sam are quite busy with church and com-
munity affairs. Patti Levi Barnett'3 th'-c-e
year old Patricia was a dear and most po-
lite to us two strangers. I was impressed
when she departed for bed without a mur-
mur! Patti and Bubba have a be.;utifui
southern colonial home that at one time
belonged to his family. I felt as if 1 were
seeing some of the Old South in Sumter.

"Jeanne Cruujmd Kean met me at the
hotel in Columbia. S. C. and was glowing
all over about the expected arrival of her

first baby which was due in April. I heard
subsequently that it was a boy. Libby Tru^-
hejrl Harris and Alice Trciul Hagen were
in Roanoke when 1 was there. Libby
seemed most happy in her new home, and
Alice was full of the antics of her little boy
and their new home which they had just
built. Also talked with Marie Musgrore
Pierce. She and Bill have sold their house
in the country and moved into town.

"Kitty Hiirdwick Efird invited Sommers
Boolh Parker and Mag Woods Tillett to
visit the same morning that I was there.
Kitty has a lovely home, and her two lively
boys had a high time playing with one of
Mag's little girls. Sommers had left her
children at home so I didn't meet them.
The Charlotte contingent were all pretty
busy with their homes and children, but
they seem to have time for golf which is
their favorite sport, even for Mag who
never cared much for Phys. Ed. at S.B.C.
as she tells it!

"June Eager Finney was quite busy in
Durham. N. C, when we were there, work-
ing as Director of Religious Education in
her church. She fits her work into the time
that her little boy is attending Duke Nurs-
ery school. Bill is still enjoying his work
in Neuro-surgery, she said. We also met
Fanchon Lewis '50 in the movies one night.
Small world, huh.''

"Katie Cox was on a European trip when
I called her home in Hartford, but I had
a letter from her when we returned, and
she really saw Europe." In a letter to Kitty.
Katie said, "Eve about decided to go back
to school again to study about how to run
cities. At this point, Em trying to wind up
my job. study a bit on the government
courses I never took at Sweet Briar and
save money!"

To go back to Margaret's tome; "Evelyn
Lee Kjgey Lee and Johnson are settled in
New Canaan, Conn., now with their three
children, Virginia, Tommy and Julie. We
had a wonderful visit with them. They too
are quite active in church and community
affairs. Marilyn Hopkins Bamborough and
husband Jim are quite happily settled in
Royal Oak, Mich., with their two children,
David and Sarah, and Collie dog. Randy.
Hop is kept quite busy with the children,
but does keep up with a lot of Sweet Briar
people by mail. Mary Fran Broun Ballard
was expected to visit her mother in De-
troit this summer, and Sally Sir/ciLmd
Johnson gets up for visits with Hop from
Cincinnati occasionally. She has an adopted
baby, Doyle Jr., and they are hoping to
adopt a little sister for "Chip" soon.

"Ann Eustis told us about her work with
cross-eyed children in a clinic in Chicago
when we were there. She belongs to sev-
eral professional groups in connection with
her work and is kept quite busy attending
meetings as well as getting her own work
done. She was planning to spend her vaca-
tion in Maine this summer with her family.
Talked to Fritzie Duncomhe Lynch while
we were in Chicago, and she was quite bus-
ily involved in a charity ball for one of the
local hospitals. Martha Ellen Query Odell
is now living, with her husband and three
year old son, Charles, in our old apartment
in Bladensburg, Md. She is working as
School Psychologist in the Prince George's
County Schools while Charles is finishing

his graduate work in Psychology at George
Washington L'niversity.

"Lucy Wood was hoping to finish her
Ph. D. in anthropology at Columbia this
June. She has received a fellowship to
study in Egypt next year. Nice to know we
have some brains in the class! Pat Brown's
last word was that she was planning to
teach second grade at the Grace Church
School in New York this year.

"Since our return to Philadelphia. I've
seen Bob and Ann-Barrett Holmes Bryan
often and their two children. Jeft and Lee.
Nomads that we are. Howard and I oc-
casionally get to church with the Bryans
in Oreland (where they live). Bob travels
in his work, too, so Ann and I are often
stay-at-home widows. She had heard froi'.i
Zola Garrison Ware that Jim was being
transferred from Monterey, Calif., to St.
Louis where they expect to spend two
years." Ann-Barrett wrote me of the Wares
that "Jim is at the naval installation in
Robertson, Missouri, right outside St. Louis.
They have a little girl, Aimee Garrison,
born Friday, April 13. I had a letter froii
Judy Eiisley Mak. They are expected back
in this country from England for a three
year stay beginning the end of August.
Their little girl. Holly, must be close to
four by now."

Dot Bottom Gilkey wrote Kitty that she
has been busy this summer with the World
Community Day project, under the L'nited
Church Women, and also acting in a little
theater production of G. B. Shaw's "Get-
ting Married." Langdon has been teaching
through the summer, and both of them have
been gardening and laying a big brick ter-
race at their home in Nashville. They were
planning a trip to Maine where they have a
cottage, in mid-August. I have just re-
turned from a visit with my parents at their
cottage on Lake George, N. Y .. while Cole-
man was at summer camp with the Army
Reserve. Garden starts to nursery school in
Oct., oh joy! and Stephen is cutting teeth
like mad and has just started to walk,
which is so funny to watch. Betty V'ellford
Bennett and Paul have moved to Baltimore,
where Paul is interning at Union Memorial
Hcspital. I hear they are enjoying Balti-
more very much.

Most of us, I am sure, have now com-
pleted our pledges to the 50th Annivers-
ary Drive, so let's really get behind Katie
and the Alumnae Fund this year and work
towards the largest contribution from the
biggest number of contributors !

1950

President: Elizabeth Todd (Mrs. Joseph
Domhoff Landen), 5580 Meryton Lane,
Cincinnati 24, Ohio.

Secretary: Frances Cone (Mrs. Andrew
B. Kirkpatrick, Jr.), 33-B Court Dr., Lan-
caster Court Apts., Wilmington 5, Del.
Fund Agent: Marie Gilliam, 2420 Peach-
tree Rd., N.W., Apt. D-19, Atlanta 5, Ga.
The response to my letters requesting
news was slight but informative. Two new
babies are: Lauren Dwight. born July 29 to
Bill Bailey and Fritz Fritzinger, and Mari-
anne, born Aug. 18 to Jean Probed and
Rich Wiant. Jean and Rich and their two
older children, Carolyn, 3, and Jimmy, IV2,
moved in May to Salina, Kansas; Rich is
with the hcspital at the Smoky Hill Air

Al//»inae Netrs

Force Base. They like the town and the
countryside, and they sounded very settled
for having been there only three weeks
when I heard from them.

Two new brides arc: Betty Todd married
Joseph Domhoff Landen on May 26, and
Nell Lee Greening married Bill Keen on
June 9. Bill is an attorney with a law firm
in Tampa, and they have a lovely apart-
ment not far from my former home. It
was furnished with beautiful antiques giv-
en as a wedding present by Nell's mother
and father. Nell is teaching the second
grade at a new grammar school.

Two new homes are: B. G. Elmore GiUe-
land writes that she and Guy have bought
a new split level house in Scarsdale and
arc busy decorating it for occupancy the
last of Sept., and Debby Fyeeiiuiii Cooler
and Newbie have bought a house in \X'al-
lingford. Pa., which has been their home
since Sept. 1.

Sally L.iiie Johnson writes that she, Sally,
3, and Ann Bailey. 8 mo., are excited over
Walter's opening his own real estate oilire
in Washington. Sally also sent news of sev-
eral people. Ann Btlst-r Asher and Norm;in
have moved to Rosemont, Pa., and bought
a house there. They have three children:
Caroline. 41 j. Blaine, 2' >, and Norman, 1.
Norman is with a helicopter company, and
he is going to Algeria for a month soon to
instruct the people there on how to operate
helicopters. Ginger Ljscomhe Rogers and
Justin have a little girl, Sarah, 6 months,
and are still in Petersburg at Camp Lee.
Sally saw MufFet Murchhon Corse while
she was visiting her sister in Charlottesville.
John Corse finished law school in June, but
they had not decided where to settle. Mutfet
was recuperating from a broken foot.

Bebe Gee Buttfield, Hank, Billy, .V and
Jim, 1, are enjoying living near the water
in Red Bank, N. J. Hank works for Royal
Liverpool Ins. and is going to N. Y. LI.
Graduate Business School at night. Beb'.'
wrote that her brother John and Rita Mm-
ray Gee were expected up for a visit from
Louisiana the end of August. Rita has two
boys also.

At the moment. I am taking time away
from the Florida sun to keep you all posted
on the news which I have received. Andv
and I have been vacationing with my
mother and father. When we .get back to
Wilmington, I will start my teaching again
at the same private school, this year con-
fining it to modern dancing and the May
Day program.

To those of you who have not answered
my last letter (a vast majority, I am sorry
to say), please do. The deadlines are Feb.
I and May n. Don't forget to contribute to
the Alumnae Fund, otherwise you won t
receive any more news until next fall!

1951

Piesidt-nl: M.\RV Streft (Mrs. George E.
Montague). .3900 Abingdon Road, Char-
lotte. N. C.

Secretary: Jean Randolph (Mrs. Alan
Martin Bruns). 210 Sunset Avenue. Char-
lottesville, 'Va.

Fund ArciiI: Ann Moi'NTCastle (Mrs.
Robert S. Clamblc). fi^ Carter St., New
Canaan, Conn,

I hate to start off my duties as class
secretary with an apology but this summer

has been so hectic that I've not had time to
do more than think of ways I'd like to get
in touch with all of you. After a bundle of
fits and starts, Alan, Bryan and I are settled
in our neu' home (note new address aboxe)
in Charlottesville, are very impressed with
city ways such as door mail delivery and
hope you will keep the postman puffing up
the hill to our door step.

Reunion was just more fun and those
who could not make it ought to resolve
right now to be back in five more years.
Those who were there I'm sure will come.
Meanwhile Annie Moo is taking over Bar-
bie Lasier Edgerly's job as fund agent. P.e-
member if you don't put up. you won't ge'
the next two issues of the Alumnae News.
The Red Fox, Ruth Cljrksoii Costello, is
our new president. Her plans to be at
Sweet Briar this winter have changed and
she will be in St. Louis.

There were 22 of us at reunion and they
put us in the top floor of Reid. As members
of the ranch-house generation, it was quite-
a shock to be confronted by those steps
I'm sure I used muscles I hadn't budged
since 19'51. Bravest of us all was Patty
Lyfijs Ford, who came with her husband
Dick and four-month old son. Richard Ly-
nas. He was ^ery blase and got a thorough
spoiling by Miss Buckham and company,
whom the Fords visited. Janet Brom.in
Crane's sister, Joan, was a graduate this
year and the entire family was on hand,
including Ed and Cathy. We had another
class sister in the Class of '56. Ann Greer,
Nedra Stimpson's sister, and Mr, and Mrs,
Greer were there.

We were quite proud of two of our class-
mates Sunday night when the alumnae play.
5'/e7'-i 10 Reunion, was presented. Ruthie
Costello was author and Joan Vail di-
rector. At step-singing, we discovered th.at
several of the songs our class dreamed up
have apparently become solid parts of the
college repertoire. "We'll be back," was
one and "Senior Classes Never Die, They
Just Fade Away " was another. The latter,
though, did not have quite the punch it
packed in the McArthur-Comes-Homc davs
of 19'il. When i! came our turn to sin,g fhe
alumnae song (Simples: "We're not spring
chicks, " "Our skirts hang down a mile."
etc.) I'm afraid we weren't too enthusias-
tic. I guess we need a little seasonin.g for
that ditty.

Appearance-wise, we seem to have fared
pretty well. Mary Pease Fleming said ino't
of her clothes probably had been with her
when she left in '■)!. That probably holds
true for a good many of us. Our May
Queen, Jean Mulynei/x Jeffcoat, showed up
as a real fashion plate — really elegantly
dressed.

Our class meeting followed a picnic at
Mrs. Lill's. It was so chilly we met insi.te
and picnicked on her floor. That's when we
pored over the class scrapbook and by the
next issue of the Alumnae News I hope
I have it here to lift some news out for
you. As I recall, one statistic was that .Andy
Ciuthrie has the most children but I don't
remember how many. The weather was
really cold and the supply of blankets gave
out. Priority went to the older alumnaj and
the newcomers shivered through the ni.ght.

Next time, I promise some "hard news"
as the convention phrase goes — that is if
you send me some. The class file's missing

persons bureau includes our fire chief,
Connie Leisy. Joan Moller Andersen, Di-
ane Aubineau, Betty Browder Nibley,
Jeanne Foyd Tandy. Suzanne Johnson, Ann
McCreery. AUie T/Umjii Baird, and Mar-
garet W'oila Gibbs. Do you know where
any of them are or how we could reestib-
lish contact.

Living in Charlottesville is exciting these
days, as you probably know if you've read
any of the news of our desegregation su'.:.
We currently have a violent group tiying
to arouse the city and tonight police and
men in the neighborhood are watching the
house of a pro-integration leader a block
from us. The violence advocates have
threatened to burn a cross in the yard and
to burn the house to boot.

A little last minute news from Ruthie.
who since Sweet Briar, has been to Wash-
ington. Houston where she visited Lynne
A[cC:iUoN^h and Deek Holcombe, Dallas
long enough to phone Sally Reid Anderson
Blalock, Oklahoma City, and back to St.
Louis. She had news of Emie Broun
Spears' son. William Ryan, Jr.. born July
2-i. Joan D.I! is and Andy Warren are god-
parents of Leslie Hellier. Jean Suplelun and
Burge's latest addition. Sue Lockley Glad
is busy being a Republican but she and
Ned got away to Fire Island to their cot-
tage for weekends. Carla deCreny Levin s
son. John deCreny. was born July 30.

We three left Sept. 1 for 10 days at
Warm Springs. And that's all until the
next issue which you don't get unless you
part with some of your gold.

1952

President: Jacqueline Razook (Mrs. Emil
Chamandyj, 3375 Ridgewood Ave., Mon-
treal, P.Q., Canada.

Seerelary: Jane Roseberry (Mrs. John A.
Ewald. Jr.). 149 Wellington Rd.. Garden
City. L. I.. N. Y.

Fund Agent: MARY Bailey (Mrs. John Iz-
ard. Jr.). Apt. 27. 3181 Mathieson Dr..
N.E., Atlanta, Ga.

A tale of woe, ladies! "Wh' fo' you all
don't answer my post cards, pleading for
news of you and yours/ I'm afraid this will
be a scant column, with what I can dig up
via the telephone, and I'll hope to be del-
uged with mail from you soon,

A communique from the Alumnae Office
tells me Suzanne Bjssewilz Shapiro and
husband, Lewis, are living now at 9437
Shore Road, Brooklyn 9, N, Y., and so must
be out of the Army and home from Ger-
many. However, the Telephone Company's
information service refuses to recognize this
fact so I ha\en't been able to reach her. Pat
L.iyiu' Vi'inks informs me that Bunny Mau-
pin and Sue Otis have returned from their
globe-trotting where they saw Gay and
her husband. Hans, in the Near East. Buiinv
is living in 'Washington temporarily but
intends to come to New York to work in
the winter. Susan had seen or heard from
Betty H.ircoiirl Drake and her husband who
have a little girl and arc living in Florida.

I have talked with Barbara B.iker Bird
who was married to Bob on June 30th in
East Aurora, N. Y., and is now living at
U50 31st Road. Long Island City . . ,
about mid-way between the job she begins
.soon as the Director of Summer Projects for
the National Board of the Y.WC.A. in

November. 19^6

New '\'ork. and Bob's position in Great
Neck as a school psycliologist. After a
honey-moon at Booth Bay Harbour and in
New England, the Bird's spent the rest of
the summer getting settled in their apart-
ment and Bob in finishing his Ph. D. dis-
sertation. The latest on Pauly 'Wells is that
she and her sister. Jay, and their mother
went to Europe this summer, and both Jay
and Pauly will be married in the fall to
"Houston Boys" and will settle there.

Casey BLick and Roger Undenvood were
married in Washington on June 23rd and
they left in early August on the U. S. S.
United States to live in Frankfurt, Ger-
many. Doesn't that sound exciting? A letter
from Robbin McGary Ramey, catching us
up on things with her! After Bob's fellow-
ship at Union Theological Seminary in
Richmond, and the birth of their little girl,
Robbin Lee, on Dec. 14, 1954, the Ranieys
moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, where
Bob is assistant minister of 'White Memorial
Presbyterian Church. Strange as it seems,
there are few S.B.ites around there but
she had seen Sue Jiidd Silcox whose latest
activities I reported in the last issue.

Two other letters arrived recently, out
of the blue, for which I am very grateful,
from Joanne Holbrook Patton and Peggy
Moore. Joannie and George are at An-
napolis this year (address: B-1 Perry Cir-
cle), George is the Naval Academy Ex-
change Officer. She says that Leila Booth
Morris and Jim with their two children,
aged 5 and I'/i, are at Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas, where Jim will be a student at the
Command and General Staff College. Joan
Stewart Hinton and Johnny are at West
Point for a tour now-, too. Joannie had seen
Mary Grafe Warren, who married a class-
mate of George's during June week, and
said she was looking lovely and glowingly
described her baby girl and their life in
Texas. Peggy Moore writes that after com-
ing back from her year in Europe (mostly
Paris), she went to Katherine Gibbs in
Boston and has been working there
ever since as secretary to the assistant di-
rector of the Center for International
Studies at M. L T. (This is composed, I
am told, mostly of professors doing research
on different countries in the fields of eco-
nomic development, communications, and
the Soviet bloc.) Peggy told me of Charlotte
Snead Stifel's daughter, born in March, and
had seen both Charlotte and Jackie Razook
Chamandy in Montreal on New Year's Eve.

Others in the blessed event department
are Nancy Morrow Lovell and Mac, who
announce the birth of Willard McKaig
Lovell. Phillip B. Taylor, Jr., arrived at
the new Montclair home of MoUie McCurdy
and Phil in May, Ann W'hittiiif^ham Smith
and Bob had their second little girl, Julia,
in June, and Jake and I had a very stel-
lar young man (we think) on June 9: John
Hiram Ewald. Dee Dee Bell Burr and Jon
produced Jonathan Williams Burr, Jr., in
early July and Holly HilLts and Don Ham-
monds had a little girl. Holly, in late July.
I talked at length with Mollie, while we
compared notes on our young sons and she
said Phil's family had run into Marianne
Vorys Minister and Thorpe several times
on a trip they made to La Jolla and the fair
west coast. Holly told me that Nancy Mc-
Cann was living on the west coast now and
is frantically working for Eisenhower!

Anne HoagLind Plumb is teaching at
Shipley Girl's School and living in Bryn
Mawr, Pa., while Bob attends Wharton
Business School. Becky Yerkes, fully grad-
uated and degreed now, was in New York
when young Hi arrived and came home
with us from the hospital for a few days,
which were very much enjoyed. She and
her family took a quick trip to Bermuda
this summer.

I just talked with Susan Hobson Mc-
Cord and she and Coke are busily getting
settled in their Styvesant Town apartment
in Manhattan while Coke runs busily from
Bellevue to Presbyterian Hospital perform-
ing very able surgery. A late communique
from Nancy Hamel Clark reveals the birth
of a baby boy in August to Blake and her!
She also tells me that Janet Graham, her
roommate from St. Andrews, is back in N,
Y. C. now, on her way to study for a year
at Berkeley, with a Commonwealth grant.
Nancy and Blake had been with Pat Paiinill
Mebane and Alan for a golf week-end at
Southern Pines recently.

That's about all our news for this issue
. . . Please do write me and tell me your
tid-bits, and do write Sweet Briar and
enclose a big, fat check for the Alumnae
Fund! 'Bye till February. Don't forget to
vote !

1953

President: Katzy Bailey (Mrs. C. J.
Nager, Jr.), Netherlands 'Village, Schenec-
tady, New York.

Secretary: Nan O'Keeffe, 12 Hawks Hill
Road. New Canaan, Conn., or 109 East 79th
Street, New York 21, N.Y.

Fund Agent: "Virginia Hudson, 83 Pleas-
ant St., Apt. 1, So. Weymouth 90, Mass.

Hi, ladies! It is that wonderful nostalgic
fall season again and it always makes me
so lonesome for Sweet Briar.

Hearts and Flowers Dept: Anne Elliott
became Mrs. Challen Caskie on May 31st
in Birmingham, Ala. Nan Locke was in the
wedding and wrote that Anne was simply
lovely. Janet \\"/dau Harris was also there.
She and her husband are living in Birm-
ingham. I heard via a little bird that Janet
Hamilburg married a most charming L'SAF
Captain named Robert Carter, in Hollis,
New Hampshire, on June 29th. Many late
felicitations. I was Nanc~y Ord's maid of
honor on July l4th when she married Art
Jackson in Alexandria, "Va. She was such a
princess, and we had such a good time.
Nancy and Art are living in Silver Spring,
Md., and are both still working in C. C,
I plan to make a trip down there either in
October or November. Their most exciting
news is that Art made the LISA Olympic
Team for .22 Calibre rifles! He is going to
compete in Australia in November, but
Nancy isn't going. Art had been a member
of the '48 and '52 Olympic teams, also. I
think that is down-right fabulous. Jo Parks
is planning to marry Ivan de Husovsky in
New Haven on the 29th of September. I
shall attend the wedding, so will have a
full report in the next issue.

Maternity Ward: We have a delightful
crop of new offspring to report, and at this
writing the girls are predominating. Hope
they have all been enrolled at SBC! Susie

Hall Godson and Bill are very delighted
with their third child and second daughter,
Anne Tyler, born on July 12th. It hardly
seems possible that I was in Susie's wed-
ding five years ago ! Time does fly, no ?
The only boy born of late that I know
about is Sug Cantey Patton's cute Stuart
Thomas. He arrived on July 31st and Sug
and "Pat" are mighty proud. They are liv-
ing in Jacksonville, Florida, at the moment.
Maggie Graves McClung got serious for a
moment and presented Red David with a
cute young lady, named Blair Burwell.
Don't know if she has red hair or not! I
bet she will be beating the bushes at SBC
just like her Mama before too many years
. . . Janie Dawson Mudwilder was in New
York for a visit, and Nancy McConald and
I had lunch with her. She showed us pic-
tures of her daughter, Jane Tarres, (called
Tarres) who was born on July 10th. She
tipped the scales at the fabulous weight of
5 lbs. 14 02. Janie is just fine, and knows
more news ! It was fun to see her, and she
bought us lunch, which was even funner!

Estelle Courand Lane was in town for a
short anniversary visit and I got to see her
also. Just fine, and seems to be enjoying the
Air Force life at Wright-Patterson AFB,
where she and Bob are stationed. Anne
Kirksey Ervin, Tate, and Dolly, their baby,
are living in Dickie Wellborn Yoran and
Jerry's house out in San Diego, while Jerry
is on a cruise and Dickie and the two kid-
dies are visiting her family in D. C.

Job Notes: Ginnie Hudson has resigned
from the faculty at Miss Hall's School in
Pittsfield, Mass., and is back at her old
company, Sigma Instruments, in Braintree,
Mass. Don't forget to send her lots of
money. You will get this issue, but no
more, unless you write to her and send
her some of that loose change. And you
know you just can't live without the SBC
News. I mean it ! Joan Brophy is working
for a fantastic organization called "Oper-
ation Home Improvement" — which is an
outgrowth of Eisenhower's ACTION. What
exactly it is, I don't know, but she is an
executive secretary, ahem, and lunches at
the Waldorf, and is making gobs of money.
She and June Arata recently visited Katzy
Bailey and C. J. Nager up in Schenectady,
and reported that all is well with the newly-
weds. Dolly Wallace is working for the
local newspaper in Charleston, W. "Va., and
is drawing fashion ads. She sent me a
sample . . . real good.

I got a nice letter from Mary Alexander
Sherwood from Houston, which is my
favorite city, and she had lots of news. She
and Phil Sherwood were married October
15, 1955. He is an architect. Betty Bentsen
Winn and Dan have two children and are
also living in Houston, as are Pat Miller
Lively and Bob. Bob works for the Humble
Oil Co. and is a geologist. Ann Horrigan
Lyons and Jim have two little girls. Mar-
garet Long married Charles Parker and is
living in Oklahoma City. Jackie Grubbs
Crews and Jimmy are in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
as is Ann Lackey, after spending a year in
Hawaii, and a year in San Francisco.

I have to run . . . don't forget to send
me news, and to send Ginnie some money.
I don't have her address in Mass., but it
will always be forwarded from Missouri.
And don't forget to register and 'VOTE,

Alumiide News

1954

Piesideiii: Margaret Mohlman, 165 East

35th Street, New York, N. Y.

Secretary: Jane R. Keating, 308 East 79th

Street, New York 21, N.Y.

Fund Ageiil: Faith Rahmer. 165 East 35th

Street, New York, N.Y.

There's so much news and so little time
that I'm not going to waste either by intro-
Juitions or organization! To wit;

Dodo lii/iilh and George Hamilton have
]ust liad their second child, George IV
( W'inkie is 1-i mos. now). They were at
Susie Bassetts wedding to Walt Fincgan
this summer . . . Merrill Underwood and
Jane Carey were bridesmaids, Helen Smith
and George Lewis, Margie Morris and Phil
Powell, Betty Owens and Peter Benziger,
Mary Hill and Doug Day, B. B. Smith and
Mimi Hitchcock also on hand. Turn about's
fair play, and all that, so shortly after, Su-
sie and Walt came up to New York for
Miniis wedding to Ray Davis, Jr. B. B.
was maid of honor; Mary Hill a bridesmaid.
The Finegans then went to Rehoboth Beach
for a fun weekend with Betty and Pete
Benziger and son Johnny. Dodo was also on
hand for Lindy Lineberger's wedding to
Bill Steele of Raleigh, as was Ellie Vorys.
Lindy and Bill honeymooned in Nassau,
and are now living in Charlotte where
Lindy is president of the alumnae club
there.

Mary Hill and Doug are stationed in
Honolulu — Doug was in a bad car acci-
dent out there — and here's a wish from all
of us that he's doing fine now. Karen
Looker Hyde and husband Nelson C. Hyde,
Jr., recently had a young son, N.C.H. III.
They're living in Clinton, N, Y., where
Nelson is director of public relations at
Hamilton College. Jan O'Neal Gould and
husband Pres have a year old son, Alan,
and are li\ ing in Dallas. Pres is Texas man-
ager of the American Express Co. Anice
Barbar is now Mrs. Julian Read, lives in Ft.
Worth and has a 2 yr. old daughter, Court-
ney. Carole D/llote Johnson and Paul now
!i\e in Athens, Pa. — have two youngsters;
John Hamilton, 3^2 ^nd Margaret, 11 mos.
Lib Wilson and Frank Rutan, the proud
parents of Eleanor, 2, and Frank, 5 mos.,
are living in Strafford, Pa.

Mary Jane Roos and Dick Fcnn have
Pamela Jane who is now -i mos. old. Page
Anderum and lim Hungerpillar saw Ann
White and Oscar Connell and Pony Bram-
lett and Charlie Lowrance at Sea Island
this summer . , . fine time had by all. Page
and Jim have two young-uns, Annie has
Oscar II, and Pony a little girl, at last
count. Peaches Davis Roane writes that
husband lack has just gotten his MD from
Vanderbilt; is interning in pediatrics. Their
daughter. Regina, was a year old in August,
Anne Allen (see, I told you there'd be no
organization!) was a bridesmaid in Pinky
Walsh's wedding to Frank Cahouet, as was
Martha Dahney Leclere. Anne still rooms
in the Village with Cathy Munds. She also
told me that 1 ) Alice Harding, Correa had
her second child, a boy. and 2) Bee Pinnell
was in N>'C recently to see Vicky Toof off
to the Sorbonne for a year.

Hatsy Rohinson has a baby girl. Avery
Trumball Taylor, Shirley Poiilson and Gil
1-loopcr ha\e two girls — 33 mcs. and 23

mos., and a boy, 5 mos. Shirley is the vice
president of the Baltimore SB Club. Card
from Louise Daits McLaughlin says she,
Ed, "Twirp " and new dau^^hter Margaret
are living the life of Reilly in Daytona
Beach. Joan Potter and Henry Micklc have
a house in Louisville and are happy as
clams. Joan wrote a wonderful letter in-
cluding such news as: Barbara Tompkins is
a department head at Wannamakers, Phila-
delphia; Lamar Ellis is working for IBM
in Atlanta; Peggy Crowley and Dick Talbott
are now living in Denver; Bev Smith Bragg
has a year old daughter; Joy Parker and
Charlie Eldrege have a little girl, Lisa. Jean
Gtllesjiie Walker had her second son re-
cently. Joan also said she and Henry see a
lot of Joyce Miles and Newton Shousc.
Joyce is teaching school at last.

Loni; letter from Gigi Mitchell Frank;
she and husband Monroe II are living in
Little Rock with Monroe III. 2 yrs.. and
Elizabeth. 8 mos. Bruce Walts and Bill
Krucke and son Carl and I converse by
phone — all's well with them. Carl is a
doll. So, by the way, is young Jeff Hurwit,
year-old-and-some son of Joan Anson and
Alby. They're still in Cambridge where
Alby is at Tufts Med School.

Fran Reese Peale is now living in Dur-
ham where husband Frank is interning at
Duke L'niversity Hospital. Barbara W/'.on
Daniel and Bob are living in College Park,
Ga., where Bob attends Georgia Tech and
Barbara is working at Georgia Military
Academy. Caroline Chobot is teachin,:? 8th
grade American history and sophomore
Modern European history at Girls Prepara-
tory School in Chattanooga, after spending
a wonderful summer abroad. Chobot visited
Libby Stamp in London — also Joan Oram
in Scotland. Joan is engaged; her fiance is
with Shell Oil and will be in Borneo for
the next three years. During that time Joan
will be an assistant lecturer at St. Andrews
where she received a 1st class honors de-
gree this summer. Another traveler this
summer was Billy Isdale — toured Europe
with special emphasis on Italy. She's now
working in a book store in New Rochelle.

Exciting news from Meg Metley; she's
engaged to Bob Peck who is currently em-
ployed by Uncle Sam. They plan to be
married in June; Meg is now getting a
Masters in teaching at Yale Grad School.
Ruth Frye and Hugo Deaton's wedding in
lune was absolutely tops; bridesmaids in
eluded Dilly Johnson Jones. Snooks /1!..7-
heu'S Holley and me, and Jo Nelson Booze
was also there to give moral support. Ruth
and Hugo are living here while he finishes
Columbia Med School. Ruth's gotten do-
mestic as all get out — I tiught her well,
and changing roommates doesn't seem to
have bothered her a bit!

Vaughan and Taylor Morrissette are
back in Mobile after living in New Or-
leans. They spent a grand weekend with
Shooks and Kyle recently, and are now
fixing up a new apartment.

Dilly and sister Saynor were in NYC :ioi
long ago — t'was great to see them. Also hud
a visit from Nancy Moody who is entering
her third year at Texas Law School — brave
soul that she is! Speaking of Texas. Sissy
Morris Girl Westward Ho is in Austin
teaching third grade at the Texas State
.School for the Blind. She loves it. and say.s

it's a marvelous job, even if she does have
to decipher the 3 R's into Braille!

I made a flying trip (literally and figu-
ratively) out to Dayton to solve the adver-
tising problem of Campbell Soups and
called Jeanne Stoddart Barends in Columbus
en route. Fred has just opened his doors to
practice, and Jeanne loves the life of a
doctor's wife. She and Fred visited Mtri
and Walt Major this summer; the Majors
highly approved of Fred and the Barends
highly approved of little Walt. Mary Lee
McGinnis has obviously dropped off the
face of the earth. Anyone knowing of her
whereabouts please contact local authori-
ties.

For those who are interested in what
I've been doing — among other things I refer
you to pages 69 thru 85 of the Sept. issue
of Vogtie ... no, no. not the model, the
copy! Also watch for the new Revlon ad
— it's a lulu, and Mrs. Eaton would dis-
own me!

Flash! Ann Collins is engaged! After
marrying off 7 roommates the San Fran-
cisco kid is taking the great step Nov. 24.
His name is Bill Teachout. stationed in
SF. and from all reports, he's divine!
Flash No. 2! Ro Ogihie is MARRIED —
living in Evanston. Illinois — and that,
ladies, is all I know about it. More later.
That, in fact, is all I know, period.

1955

President: Nancy Anderson, 181 Hudson

St., Hudson, O.

Acting Secretary: Jane Lindsey. 1500 N.

Delaware St.. Indianapolis. Ind.

Fund Agent: Catherine Cage, 1002 Sul

Ross. Houston. Tex.

Hello from the Midwest — not so exciting
as Manda's datelines but there's fair qual-
ity of news. First a plug for the Alumnae
Fund. Send your checks to Cathy Cage and
receive the remaining issues of the Alum-
nae News.

L'niess someone comes up with a prior
claim. Sally Oherlin Davis has class honors
for the first wee one — a boy, Noel, born in
June. Nella G'r.v) B.!rklcy takes a second
place with Rufus Calvin Barkley IV. born
in Charleston on Aug. 4. Incidentally the
Barkleys are living in an interesting old
house which formerly belonged to Derrill
Mayhank Hagood's uncle.

Weddings have been almost as prevalent
this summer as last. Pan.sy Johnson and
Graydon De Camp married in Cincinnati on
Aug. 18. Joan Fankhauser was maid of
honor and Gay Reddig was on hand for
the festivities. Both Pansy and Graydon
will teach at Eaglebrock. primar>' school of
Deerfield Academy for Boys. Deerfield.
Mass. Gay's at Georgetow-n Law School and
Fank will be teaching the second grade in
a Cincinnati public .school.

Yola Avram married an American in
Athens last summer and both will return to
school in Madison. VC'is.. this fall. Mai7
Ellen Maxwell and 'William Gordon Bowen
were married in Cinnati on Aug. 25.
Frankie Marbiiry Coxe writes that Camille
Williams and Derrill Mayhank HagooJ
were bridesmaids in her wedding on Mav
26. Mary Boyd Murray and Kathleen
Peeples Sadler were there also. Latest ru-
mor has Camille on her way to Australia
for the Olympic Games. Kathleen is still

November, 1956

with an insurance company in Macon. She
expects Dick home in May. Mary Boyd
reports the greatest adventure: she bumped
into Dr. Masur in Heidelburg, Germany,
last summer.

Largest SBC representation seems to have
been in Alexandria for Pat Smith's marriage
to jack Ticer on July 20. Sue Seward. Anne
Williams and I were bridesmaids, and Pam
Compton. Betsy Miller. Shirley Sutliff and
Anne Kilby were among the well wislicrs.
Sue Seward was planning to do part time
work for an architect in Petersburg. Anne
Williams is still with CIA as is Pam. Sut-
liff has left N.ilio)hil Geugrjphic. Kilby will
attend law school at Yale.

Vida Radin summered in Nantucket and
plans to work for USIA in Washington
durmg the fall but will take off for Europe
in January. Frances Bell spent the summer
traveling— first a long western trip, then
visits to Kathleen Peeples Sadler and Di-
ane Hum Lawrence and Jimmy who are
back in Winchester. Babs GM-foilh Jackson
and Ivey are in Birmingham. Their apart-
ment is right across the hall from that of
Carolyn Dickinson Tynes ('56), Newell
Bryan and Cathy Cage are still working for
brokers, Newell in Cleveland and Cathy in
Houston. Cathy and Lydia Plawp Platten-
burg have gotten together several times. Ly-
dia and George will be in Houston till Nov.
Kay Roberts is teaching tenth grade biology
in Victoria. Nancy Douthat, Pat Tucker and
Joan Gualtieri have rented a house in
Georgetown. Didi Stoddard is still comput-
ing at Johns Hopkins Physics Lab in Silver
Spring. Jeanette Kennedy spent four weeks
in a tent at Pleasantville, N. Y., in con-
nection with a Girl Scout training program.
She hoped to see Fay Cooper Gates who is
living in New Brunswick, N. J.

Ginger Finch was in San Francisco for
the summer and may stay there. Charlotte
Taylor has been traveling in Europe. Nancy
Anderson will teach the second grade at
Old Trail School in Akron, 'Manda Mc-
Thenia has spent the summer in Spain,
Greece and Turkey — unfortunately she had
to bypass Egypt. And yours truly is still
working with children's books at Bobbs-
Merrill in Indianapolis. And thassall.

1956

President: Joyce Lenz, Sunset Hill, Boyce

Avenue, Ruxton 4, Md.

Secretary: CATHERINE LoTTERHOS, 905

Pinehurst St., Jackson, Miss,

Fund Agent: Kay Smith, 2205 Kentmere

Parkway, Wilmington, Del.

I have a 700 word limit and I have
news of 58 of you; this presents a problem.
Please be understanding about the economic
phraseology . . . there is just too much
going on !

Impromptu class reunions began as early
as June 9 when Ruth Philips and Opie W.
Hollowell were married; and the wedding
circuit moved south and then north again
to include the weddings of Mary Ann and
Stuart Quarngesser, Carolyn Dickinson and
Bayard Tynes, Carolyn Pannell and Dudley
Ross, Helen Turner and Tayloe Murphy,
and Mitzie Djerf and Raymond Deridder.
From all accounts these were lovely af-
fairs and I'm sure the brides are doing a
"lovely" job of housekeeping. I happened

to be an eyewitness of Carolyn Tynes'
housekeeping in Birmingham, and 1 was
pleasantly surprised to find that her apart-
ment bears no resemblance whatsoever to
300 Gray!

Helen wrote that Jane Bl.ick Clark and
David are still in Norfolk and Margie Man-
get Lyman and Guy were there until the
Navy sent Guy to Europe. Margie will fol-
low him soon. Mary Ann and Mitzie will
both be in the Old Dominion again next
year: Mitzie and Ray will live in Quantico
and Mary Ann and Stu will be in Char-
lottesville. Carolyn Blake was married in
June and is now living in Buffalo, N. Y.
Mary Alice Major was married on August
6 to William A. Duncan IV; and in late
August Laura Hailey and Charles Bowen
were married. Parksie Carroll was mar-
ried on September 1.

Best wishes to Jeanne Applequist, Kave
Creekmore, Pryde Brown, Bet Forbes, Mimi
Thornton, and Kay Smith ! Jeannie will be
married on Dec. 29. Pride's engage-
ment to John McPhee was announced on
August 28. They will be married in De-
cember, Bet Forbes and Ed Locklin are
planning a Nov, wedding. Kaye Creekmore,
who has been working for the Oklahoma
Historical Society, has recently announced
her engagement to Ensign George Owen
Compton. Mimi's engagement to Boo Op-
penhimer was announced on August IM, and
a summer wedding is planned. In the ir.cp.n-
time. Miss Thornton and Miss Gaileher
will be teaching school in Culpeper, Va,
Kay Smith also will be a school marm u.ntil
the wedding bells ring in June for her and
Terry Davis. Kay will teach fourth
graders in Wilmington, Del., and Tolly
LIrner will move to the same city to teach
third graders. Anne Willis, after a splendid
summer at the L^niversity of Edinburgh,
will teach school in St. Louis,

Betsy Meade, Helen Wolfe, Alice Gug-
genheimer, and Ann Stevens, ( in one
apartment) and Ginny Echols, Frances Gil-
bert, and Louisa Hunt (in another) will be
living in Cambridge, Mass., next year. Ann
will be an assistant interior decorator in
Jordon Marsh Department Store. Louisa
will be with the personnel office at Harvard;
Alice will be working at Peter Bent Brig-
ham Hospital in the Department of Surgery
on chemical problems associated with their
studies on surgical patients and patients
with cancer. Iris Potteiger will be in Cam-
bridge taking part in the Harvard-Radcliffe
Program in Business Administration.

Janet Caldwell will also be doing grad-
uate work for her M.A. in teaching at
Yale. Lee Chang is not only working
toward an M.A. in Educational Psychology,
she is also going to be a Student Dean and
a Housemother at Cornell LTniversity. Sue
Talburt is planning to study in Madrid
next year; and Nancy St. Clair will be
studying at the Sorbonne until March. Lee-
sie Parrish will meet her in Paris in I-lov.
following a trip to the Far East.

Karen Steinhardt is headed for Europe
and Africa this fall. In Germany she plans
to visit Sally Joseph Vickerman, who has
just had a son, Michael Jay Vickerman,
Meredith Smythe will spend the next three
months in Europe. I'm sure Betty Buxton,
Joyce Fackiner, and Prince Trimmer have
enjoyed their summer trip abroad. Rose

Montgomery has had a marvellous trip out
west with her family,

Nancy Pickering and Sally Hyde have al-
ready settled in New York City; Betty
Pierce and Evy Christison will join them
soon. Corky Lauter is working with the
N. Y. Life Insurance Company in the In-
surance Research Department, and Eve Alt-
sheler will move in soon and will be work-
ing in advertising for J. Walter Thompson.
Joan Broman and Byrd Stone are planning
to live in N. Y. Ann Greer has been in
N. Y. for the summer studying dancing and
modelling; this fall she is returning to
Mobile for a year of teaching dancing and
a big debut season.

Ann Irvin is going to do Child Welfare
Work in Roanoke and Dede Candler is go-
ing to work for the Atlanta Historical So-
ciety. Hazel Herring will be living in Chapel
Hill either to take a business course or to
work for the L'niversity Press; she has just
finished the Publishing Procedures Course at
Radclift'e. Nancie Howe took a Girl Scout
position in Toledo in September. After a
grand tour of the west with Frances Shan-
nonhouse and Harriet Cooper, Nancy
Salisbury will take a position with Belwood,
Inc. in Jackson, Miss. Jane Street, Joyce
Lenz, and Barbara Collis have informed
me that they plan to find careers in their
respective home towns; and I also have
found a job in my respective and most re-
spectable home town of Jackson, Miss, — I
am associated with the Mississippi Depart-
ment of Archives and History, and I will
find out just what the "association " will be
after September 1,

That's all I know, please keep me in-
formed. You've been wonderful so far and
I'm very grateful. Don't forget to send
funds to Kay!

Love to all,

Ci'herine

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Sweet Briar Alumnae Clubs and Their Presidents

REGION I

ChMinijii: Mrs. Kenneth B. Harding (Betty Myers, 'SSg)
Boston, Massachusetts

Mrs. Carter Rowe (Mary Moore, '34g),
21 Cedar Rd., Chestnut Hill
Northern New Jersey

Mrs. Robert Savage (Ann Orr, '48),
635 Dorian Rd., VCcstheld
New York City

Mrs. Stephen Botsford (Cynthia Abbott, '42g),
243 East 48th St.
Westchester

Mrs. Robert N. Eckhardt (Lacy Skinner, '50g),
Sunset Lane, Rye, N. Y.
Connecticut

Mrs. William B. Crane, Jr. (Margaret Cramer, '21s,),
106 Stamford Ave., Stamford
Rochester, New York

Mrs. George Hill (Helen Watson, ■4lg),
416 Oakridge Dr.

REGION II

Chainnjii: Mrs. John B. Orgain, Jr. (Norvell Royer,' 30g)

Amherst, Virginia

Mrs. Charles Faukoner (Louise McCord, '50g),
Monroe, Va.
Charlottesville, Virginl\

Mrs. Knox Turnbull (Evelyn Williams, ■40g),
Shadwell, Virginia
Lynchburg, Virginia

Mrs. Lea Booth (Mary Morris Gamble, '50g),
1316 Oakwood Court
Norfolk, Virginu

Mrs. G. W. Stacey (Nancy Cofer, '47g),
814 Graydon Ave.
Peninsula

Mrs. Joseph J. Woodward (Virginia Vesey, '33),
No. 4 Merry Circle, Warwick, Virginia
Richmond. Virginia

Mrs. Tazewell Ellett, III (Marguerite Rucker, '48g),
307 Somerset La.
Roanoke, Virginia

Mrs. E. Griffith Dodson, Jr. (Molly Talcott, '38g),
122 27th St., S.E.
Washington. D. C, Area

Mrs. Dickson R. Loos (Beatrice Dingwell, '46g),
6400 Garnett Rd., Chevy Chase, Md.

REGION III

Chairman: Mrs. John S. Smith (Ruth Hasson, '30g)

Wilmington, E>elaware

Mrs. Richard R. Condit (Julia Hoeber, ■4lg),
223 Thomas Drive, Monroe Park
Baltimore, Maryland

Mrs. Christopher Lamb (Rebekah Stokes, '45),
1220 W. Lake Ave.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvanla

Mrs. George T. Francis, Jr. (Elinor Ward, '37g),
"Avon Wood." Haverford 1. Pa.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Mrs. Paul J. Sturgeon (Mary Copeland, '29g),
905 Wellesley Road

REGION IV

Chairman: Mrs. William S. Sandifer, Jr.,

(Agnes Cleveland. '31g)
Charlotte, North Carolina

Mrs. William L. Steele, III (Harriette Lineberger, '54g),
2911 Crosby Rd.
Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Mrs. Joseph C. Bartel (Anna Whitaker, '4lg),
321 Lynn Avenue

REGION V

Chairman: Mrs. Clarence B. Rogers (Mary Clark, '13)

Birmingham, Alabama

Mrs. Ralph B. Tate (Louise Cross, '45g),
3809 Jackson Blvd., Crestline Hgts.

Columbus, Georgia

Miss Mary Boyd Murray, '55g,
1256 Eberhart Ave.
Jacksonville, Florida

Miss Rebecca Yerkes, '52g,
2935 Grand Ave.
Tampa, Florida

Mrs. Marvin Essrig (Cecile Waterman, ■44g),
1017 Frankland Road
Atlanta, Georgia

Mrs. Lamar W. Little (Anne Corbitt, '34g),
273 The Prado, N.E.

REGION VI

Chairman: Miss Marguerite Hume, ■43g)

Lexington, Kentucky

Mrs. A. G. Campbell (Anne Estill, ■50g),
1801 Bon Air Dr.
Louisville, Kentucky

Mrs. Henry D. Bickel (Joan Potter, ■54g),
144 No. Ewing Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio

Mrs. Joseph E. Landen (Elizabeth Todd, '50g),
1211 Herschel Woods Lane
Charleston, West Virginia

Miss Elisabeth Wallace, '53g,
327 Professional Bldg.
Indianapolis, Indiana

Mrs. Robert E. Jenkins (Nancy Kegley, '42),
36 E. 57th St.

REGION VII

Chairman: Mrs. W. Wright Bryan (Ellen Newell, '26)

Chicago, Illinois

Miss Patricia A. Barton, '51g,
3 Pomander Walk, Glencoe
Cleveland, Ohio

Mrs. Hanson H. Hodge (Emily Jones, ■27g),
2721 Berkshire Rd., Cleveland Heights
Columbus, Ohio

Mrs. W. Todd Furniss (Barbara Ripley, '42g),
129 Indian Springs Dr.
Toledo, Ohio

Mrs. Marcus Smith (Gratia Boice, '49),
2407 Barrington
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Mrs. Ralph Teitgen (Katherine Mensing, '44),
4400 N. Wilson Drive
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Mrs. Cyril P. Pesek (Muriel Possum, '25),
2125 South Oliver Ave.

REGION VIII

Chairman: Miss Mary Lee McGinnis, '54g)

St. Louis, Missouri

Mrs. Ray P. Perry. Jr. (Margaret Eggers, '44g),
60 Conway Lane
Chattanooga, Tennessee

Mrs. David P. McCallie (Maddin Lupton. '48g).
1604 Carroll Lane
Memphis, Tennessee

Mrs. C. O. Beeson, Jr. (Betty Hoehn, '47g),
5839 Poplar
Nashville, Tennessee

Mrs. John G. Palmer (Nancy K. Butterworth. '51g),
3717 Woodmont La.

REGION IX

Chairman: Mrs. Robert S. Bush (Sarah Adams, '43g)

Los Angeles, California

Mrs. Daniel B. Esterly (Eleanor Cook, '34g),
2280 Chaucer Road, San Marino
San Francisco, California

Mrs. Walter C. Fell (Hellen Mowry, '24g).
1727 Judah St.
Denver. Colorado

Miss Benadine Newby, '40g,
800 Pennsylvania St.
Houston, Texas

Mrs. Robert W. Ja^^is. Jr. (Ruth Houston, '46g),
2019 Bancroft Lane

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Swi i;t Briar Colliici:, S\vi:i£t Briar, Virginia

November, 1956

BOUSHALL HEADS BOARD

Thomas C. Boushall, Richmond banker,
has been named president of the Board oi
Directors, according to announcement made
by Archibald G. Robertson, Richmond,
chairman of the board's executive commit-
tee Dr Connie M. Guion. New York, has
also been elected a director.

'Education for Quality' Stressed on Founders' Day

Mr. Boushall
succeeds Dr. Dab-
ney S. Lancaster,
Millboro Springs,
who resigned from
the board presi-
dency last summer
when he was ap-
jiointcd to the State
Council of Higher
Education of which
he has since been

c/ime cho.sen chairman.
Members of the Council may not hold office
or retain membership on the board of direc-
tors of any school or college.

As president of the Bank of Virginia, Mr.
Boushall is nationally known in banking
circles. He has been a member of the Board
of Overseers at Sweet Briar since 1949, serv-
ing on its committee on investments and
and finance.

A member of the State Board of Educa-
tion since 195.T, Mr. Boushall is a leader
in educational and social welfare organiza-
tions. Last March he was given the 1956

(Ccntinued on page 2, coL 1)

A prediction that education, now recog-
nized as the key to the future, will become
the great public issue of the future was
made by the Founders' Day speaker, Fred
M. Hechinger, widely known writer on
educational topics. He was education editor
of the New York Hemic/ Tribune for the
past six years.

A shortage of brain power, rather than of
man power, is apparent today, Mr. Hech-
inger pointed out in his address. "American
Education, Chapter 2: Tide of the Future. "

"In the first phase of American education
we were mainly concerned with getting
everybody into school," he said. "This we
accomplished, and we did so brilliantly. In
fact, this may well have been America's
greatest contribution to the first half of the
20th century. Through the universal public
school we have already begun literally to
transform the face of the earth.

"But in the second phase, ' lie continued,
"we must replace the ni.n who are masters
of maintenance and logistics, and who are
now running so many of our schools, ami
must substitute men of the mind and of
ideas . . ."

Speaking of some of the educational
problems \\'hich are increasing along with
the rising number of children to be educated,
he said, "It is difficult to make parents un-
derstand that to be selective and permit

talented children to get ahead faster is not a
sign ol undemocratic attitudes.

'If the parents stand in the way of this
desperately needed development of quality,
then they must be re-educated. But unless a
system ol cjuantity can also encourage qual-
ity, the mass structure itself will collapse
under the weight of mediocrity. "

Representatives from many Virginia col-
leges and secondary schools attended the
all-day program. They were guests at a
luncheon in Reid dining room prvrceding the
afternoon panel on "Schools and Colleges —
Their Common Interests."

Speakers on the panel led by Mr. Hech-
inger included Mrs. Wilma Kerby-Miller,
dean of instruction, Radcliff j College; Henry
I. "Willett, superintendent of the Richmond
Public Schools; and Lester W. Nelson,
former principal of the Scarsdale, N. Y.,
High School and now a consultant to the
Fund for the Ad\ancement of Education.

The need for clarifying th;r basic pur-
poses of education, for encouraging gifted
students in order to produce more brain-
power, and for emphasizing quality in edu-
cation, was asserted by the participants in a
lively exchange of views.

Steps being taken in both schools and
colleges to encourage and challenge superior
students were outlined by Mrs. Kerby-Mil-
ler, who mentioned several kinds of experi-

(Cvntinurd on page 5, col. 2)

(■'til* Campbrlt Pholis

Members of the Founders' Day panel meet prior to the afternoon session: Seniors Diane Duffleld and Carter Donnan, Mr. Hechinger, and Miss Jane
Fred M. Hechinger. panel moderator; Mrs. Wilma Kirby-Miller; Henry I. Belcher talk over questions raised by Mr. Hechinger in his morning address.
Willett; Miss Tyler Gemmell, co-chairman of the program; Lester W. Nelson. Miss Belcher was co-chairman of the day's program.

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SWEET BRIAR ALUMNAE NEWS

November, 1956

Chambers Succeeds Duffield
As Head of Parents' Board

Lenoir Chambers, editor of the Norfolk
Virgiii'hui-Pilol. was elected chairman of the
Parents' Advisory Board on the 10th annual
Parents' Day, October 27. He succeeds Hugh
K. Duffield, Glad-
wyne. Pa., vice-presi-
dent of Sears, Roe-
buck & Co., eastern
area, who has been
chairman tor three

years.

Almost 100 par-
ents, members of the
Parents' Advisory
Board, heard Presi-
dent Anne Gary
Pannell's report of
Aufcmer gjft-j totaling more
than $1,750,000 in the $2,500,000 develop-
ment program, aimed for completion during
1956, the college's fiftieth anniversary year.
Alexander Donnan, Roanoke, described
the Parents' Fund which was organized last
April under his chairmanship to underwrite
the college's scholarship program.

Mr. Chambers, whose daughter Elisa-
beth is a sophomore at Sweet Briar, has been
editor of the Virghiuvi-Pilot since 1950. A
graduate of the University of North Caro-
lina, where h; was elected to Phi Beta
Kappa, he is also a graduate and trustee of
Woodberry Forest School, where he taught
for two years before going into newspaper
work. He became associate editor of the
Virginian-Pilot in 1929. and served as edi-
tor of the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch from
1944 to 1950.

Director and past president of the Nor-
folk Forum, Mr. Chambers is also a director
of the Norfolk Public Library and he is a
trustee of Norfolk Academy.

Approximately 400 parents from all
parts of the country took part in the Par-
ents' Day program and visited the new
William Bland Dew dormitory, first of
three buildings included in the develop-
ment program at Sweet Briar.

New Board President

(Ccnlcnued from page I)

Distinguished Service Award of the Vir-
ginia State Chamber of Commerce for out-
standing service to the state.

Dr. Guion, who was named to the Sweet
Briar Board of Overseers in 1950, has been
chairman of the development committee
since 1953. She was one of the early faculty
members at the college, where she taught
chemistry for five years before continuing
her studies.

A graduate of the medical school of Cor-
nell University, Dr. Guion has maintained
a private practice in New York City for
many years. She has taught clinical medicine
at Cornell, and she has been director of
medical clinics of New York Hospital, on
whose board of governors she is currently
serving.

PROF. HAPALA INCLUDED

IN NEW VFIC BOOKLET

"Corporate Citizenship and the Tradition
of Quality" is the title of an effectixe bro-
chure published in October by the Virginia
Foundation for Independent Colleges, of
which Sweet Briar is a member. In the past
three years, 194 firms have contributed
$601,411 to the Foundation.

One professor from each of the 1 2 mem-
ber colleges was selected by the editor of
the brochure to highlight his presentation
of the need to increase faculty salaries.
Milan E. Hapala, associate professor of eco-
nomics and government, represents Sweet
Briar. The following sketch accompanies
his picture:

"Dr. Hapala's emphasis is upon the
training of responsible adult citizens. His
teaching of comparative government and
economics ofl?ers an especially timely in-
sight into international afi^airs and the facts
of economic life. With a knowledge of his
native Czechoslovakia intensified by under-
graduate and graduate training in political
science in the United States and service in
the U. S. Army in World War II, he
brings a broad approach to his subject. His
practical skill as a teacher has been brought
into the Lynchburg community through his
cour.se in economics for the American In-
stitute of Banking."

A graduate of Beloit College, Prof. Ha-
pala has his master's degree from the Uni-
versity of Nebraska and he received his
Ph. D. at Duke University last June. He has
been at Sweet Briar since 1947 and he is now
chairman of the Division of Social Studies.

New faculty appointees include: (first row) Miss
Emma Lewis Thomas, instructor in dance and phys-
ical education: Mrs. Evelyn Freeman, instructor in
education: Mrs. Evelyn da Parma, instructor in
English: Mrs. Leonora Wiicswo, instructor in mathe-
matics. Second row: Alan Cassels, visiting lec-
turer in history: Miss Ruth Roettlnger, lecturer
in government: Andrew J. Schwartz, Instructor in
the Division of Social Studies.

FEE INCREASED TO $2,200

Parents of students now in college learned
early in October that the 10^^ salary in-
creases for faculty and staff members, which
went into effect last July 1, and other mount-
ing costs have necessitated a $200 raise in
the over-all student fee, beginning in Sep-
tember 1957. Last year the per-student cost
to the college reached $2,4l4, making it
necessary to set the over-all fee at $2,200.

President Pannell pointed out that higher
costs for the current year are being met
largely by last year's gifts from Sweet
Briar alumnae through the Alumnae Fund
and from business and industrial firms
through the Virginia Foundation for Inde-
pendent Colleges.

Added funds for scholarships and grants-
in-aid will be made available.

NEW

LANGUAGE

LABORATORY

Campbell Photos

"French without tears" describes results being ob-
tained In the new language laboratory, built and
equipped by a $7000 grant from the Fund for
the Advancement of Education. Here, In l5
cubicles supplied with disc recorders and head-
sets, beginning students supplement regular class
work with two hours each week In the lab, listening
to discs and recording their own speech, guided
by seniors who studied In France last year. Accel-
erated progress Is notable after onjy a few
weeks, their teachers declare.

NOVIJMBHR, 1956

SWEET BRIAR ALUMNAE NEWS

Page 3

New Admission Head Named

Miss Jean Louise Williams will become
director of admission at Sweet Briar on July
1 , according to a recent announcement hv
President Pannell. Miss Williams has been
assistant dean and
director of voca-
tional guidance at
Sweet Briar since
1951, and she has
also been a mem-
ber of the com-
mittee on admis-
sion.

Miss Williams
will succeed Mrs.
Bernice D. LiU
who joined the staff as registrar in 1928.
A reorganization of administrative duties in
19^7 resulted in Mrs. Lill's becoming the
first director of admission. She will con-
tinue in this post until next June, when her
resignation takes effect.

Miss Williams' experience as a teacher in
secondary schools and at the college level
and in administrative positions in other col-
lege admissions offices makes her well quali-
fied to succeed Mrs. Lill.

Before coming to Sv.'ect Briar, Miss Wil-
liams attended the Harvard Graduate School
of Education Jor a year, following two years
as director of admission at Cedar Crest
College and two years at Vassar College,
where she was assistant to the director of
admissions and to the warden.

A graduate of Wellesle)' College, Miss
Williams taught biology at the Mary Burn-
ham School and she served for three years
as an assistant in the botany department at
Wellesley, where she took a master of arts
degree in 1937. She became head of the
science department and taught biology at
Dana Hall for five years. From June 1943
until December 1945, Miss Williams served
in the L'. S. Navy, advancing to the rank
of lieutenant junior grad;*.

Mrs. Lill, who is also a Wellesley gradu-
ate, initiated many improvements in Sweet
Briar's admissions program during the years
she has served the collegj, and her leader-
ship in this work has been widely recog-
nized. When the WAVES were organized
in 1942, Mrs. Lill became one of the first
lieutenants to be commissioned and she
served in the Navy for almost four years.

Enrollment Tops J 20

Sweet Briar's enrollment on the opening
day of college, September 21, reached a new
high of 523, including eight day students,
of whom two were freshmen. Eleven stu-
dents entered with advanced standing, hav-
ing attended some other college, junior col-
lege, or university before enrolling at Sweet
Briar. Three had attended uni\ersities in
other lands, in Peru, in Lebanon, and St.
Andrews, Scotland. In all, 38 states, the
District of Columbia, and eight foreign
countries are represented.

Of this year's freshmen, 46^/c entered
from 70 public schools and 549f from 58
private schools. Geographic tabulations in-
dicate that 46^, f come from the northeast,
44"^^ from the south, 7% from the central
states and .5% from the far west. Fourteen
freshmen are daughters of alumnae.

'EDUCATION FOR QUALITY'

(Ccnttnufd from page 1)

mcnts being tried at various levels. Although
none seems to offer the perfect solution, they
are producing some satisfactory results.

"We need to look again at our basic pur-
poses in educating people, " said Mrs. Kerby-
Miller, "and we need to put more stress on
moral and intellectual values."

New thinking on problems of education,
new ways of putting to better effect the tech-
nological developments which surround us
— such as audio-visual aids, including tele-
vision — and more of the kind of teaching
which will de\eIop quality teachers and
quality learning were among the points dis-
cussed by Mr. Nelson.

As a means of achieving some of the
needs outlined by the first two speakers,
Mr. Willett emphasized the importance of
bringing together teachers of all levels to
talk about continuity of learning, so that
programs of education at the various levels
can be re-built to provide greater continuity,
and that agreement may be reached on the
primary purposes of education.

"We must find out how to resist the
trend to mediocrity and the notion that we
can get somethint; for nothing, to which our
high standard of living had led us," added
Mr. Willett, who is an outstanding leader
in education.

Another in the series of beautiful piano
recitals by Iren Marik, Hungarian-born con-
cert artist who teaches at Sweet Briar, con-
cluded the day's program, which was one of
the events held in honor of the 50th anni-
versary year, 1956.

STUDENT HONORS

Mary K. Benedict SchoUrship: Eleanor Ritter, '57.

Mansoii Alumnae Scholarship: Margaret Liebert,
'57.

Em/lie Watls McVea Scholars: (ranking member
in each class) Jane Best, '57; J. Kenan
Myers, '58; Elizabeth Johnston, '59.

Junior Honors: (highest juniors) June Berguido,
JuUa Craig. Susan Davis. Marietta Eggleston,
Myrna Fielding, Emma Matheson, J. Kenan
Myers, Letha ^X'ood.

Dean's List, first semester: SENIORS: Sophie
Ames, Alice Barnes, Jane Best, Elizabeth
Churbuck, Carter Donnan, Betty Folmar,
Mariella Gibson, Nancy Godwin, Anne
Gwinn, Joan Harjes, Saynor Johnson, Mar-
garet Liebert, Nannette McBurney, Frances
May, Elaine Newton, Hclene Perry, Eleanor
Ritter. Carroll Weitzel, Carolyn Wcstfall,
Marjorie Whitson.

Juniors: June Berguido. Floride Buchanan,
Susan Calhoun, Dianne Chase, Julia Olive
Craig, Susan Davis, Susan Day, Myrna Field-
ing, Mabelle Garrard. Edith Knapp, Annie
Laurie Lanier, Maude VC'inborne Leigh, Shir-
ley McCallum, Emma Matheson, Elizabeth
Meats. Kenan Myers, Ethel Ogden, Dorothy
■\X'yatt. Juniors Abroad: Stephanie Butan,
Marietta Eggleston, Barbara von Hoffman,
lulia McCullough, Elizabeth Dana Smith,
bianne Stafford, Letha 'W^ood.
Sophomores: Elaine Allison. Judith Brean,
Catherine Brownlee. Ethel Bruner, Victoria
Buckingham, Elizabeth Colwill, Jo Anne
Dougherty, Jane Duncan, Kitty Guy, Ann
Hearin, Nina Hopkins. Gertrude Jackson,
Elizabeth Johnston, Barbara Kelly, Joan
Luke, Virginia Marchant, Eloise Marshall,
Sarah Mayfield, Dorothy Moore, Evelyn
Moore, Alice Morris, Fleming Parker. Ann
Pegram, Virginia Ramsey, Valerie Stoddard,
Nina Thornton.

Tan Phi: SENIORS: Sophie Ames. Jane Best,
Anna Chao, Dorothy Duncan, Mariella Gib-
son. Elaine Kimball, Nannette McBurney,
Jane Pinckney, Joanne Raines, Eleanor Rit-
ter, Enid Slack. Carroll Weitzel, Mar)' Anne
■Wilson. Juniors: June Berguido. Floride
Buchanan. Marian Martin, Dorothy 'Woods.

Who's Who Among Sludenls: Priscilla Bowdle,
Anna Chao. Nancy Godwin. Dagmar Hal-
magyi. Saynor Johnson. Margaret Liebert,
Eleanor Ritter. Mar)' Anne Wilson.

Choir Plans European Tour

Sweet Briar's Choir and the Universit)' of
Virginia Glee Club are trying to work out
travel arrangements and secure financial
backing for a joint concert tour in Europe
next summer. // both those obstacles can be
hurdled, the tour is to last from four to
six weeks. Approximately 60 students will
travel through Europe in two chartered
buses. Donald Mclnnis and Edmund Alli-
son are directors of the Virginia and Sweet
Briar groups, respectively.

Any assistance from parents or alumnae
will be welcomed, and such offers may be
directed to Mr. Allison.

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SWEET BRIAR ALUMNAE NEWS

November, 1956

Shakespeare in Scotland

By Elaine Kimball, '57

Representing Sweet Briar at the University
of St. Andrews last year was as wonderful
for Jane Pinckney and me as it has been for
every girl who has had the opportunity to
study there, but we did our best to avoid
being only sponges. We made an effort to
increase the number of applicants for the
Sweet Briar scholarship and to make some
contribution to university life through work
with the Mermaid Dramatic Society.

My experience with Paint and Patches en-
abled me to help another American student,
Michael Sisk of Amherst College, Massa-
chusetts, who directed two Mermaid pro-
ductions. We tried to introduce and prove
the value of the rudiments of efficient pro-
duction techniques which we employ in this
country. For the winter production of Thff
Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder, I
was head of make-up and by undertaking at
the last minute a minor role at a hold-over
performance of the play, I began my brief
career as an actress in St. Andrews.

The spring Mermaid production was
Alacbeth, staged outdoors in the ruins of
St. Andrews Castle and produced and di-
rected by Mike Sisk. I played Lady Macbeth
opposite a good Scotsman from Cupar An-
gus, Perthshire, during a run of six even-
ing performances and one matinee in a
chilly, windy, but dry week in May. With
good direction and some work on diction,
my Southern accent, not objectionably
twangy or flat, could be heard over the wind
and the North Sea tides, washing the rocks
some fifty feet to the audience's left. Jane
was of invaluable assistance to the assistant
director, who sat in the lighting tower,
erected behind the audience, and telephoned
her the cues for timed entrances of the
actors, all of whom had to scale walls and
climb rock piles to appear before the au-
dience.

The success of Macbeth, technical and
financial, encouraged a group of us, again
led by Mike, to stay in St. Andrews through

Looking forward to a year of study in France, this
1956-57 Junior Year in France, the ninth foreign stu
program in 1948, includes 87 men and women from

the month of July to present a Shakespeare
Festival outdoors in the Castle and Cathedral
Ruins. Twelve or fourteen of us (the num-
ber varied during the season) three Ameri-
cans, the rest Scottish and English, organized
the University Players, a company not con-
nected with the Mermaid Society or with thj
University, secured a grant of £150 from
the Town Council publicity committee to
cover initial expenses, and undertook the
project. The men secured rooms around the
town and the four girls rented a flat which
supplied the oflice, kitchen and dining room
for the entire group. We included living
expenses in the total budget.

Two weeks before the opening perform-
ance, the group re-assembled in St. Andrews
to begin preliminary classes in dance and
improvisation, as well as actual preparation
of Romeo and Juliet, given in the ruined
cloister area of the 12th century Cathedral
This production was followed by Othello.
The Taming of the Shrew, and A Midsum-

Cunar.i Line Photo

group of students sailed early in September, The
dy group since Sweet Briar began to administer the
42 colleges and universities.

mer N/ght's Dream, all three presented in
the Castle.

For two or three of those six weeks we
thought ourselves idealistic and courageous;
after a month of taking turns doing all the
housekeeping, all publicity, all costumes, all
set construction, rehearsals and at least ade-
quate performances five nights and two aft-
ernoons each week, we called ourselves plain
crazy. The weather and, therefore, the town's
tourist business were poor, so that financially
we did not make the killing we had hoped.
However, the standard of our productions
was high, we acquired a deeper and more
practical understanding and appreciation of
Shakespeare as poet and dramatist, and
though we three Americans could not re-
main, the other University Players will form
a nucleus of experienced performers for
future Mermaid productions.

Elaine Kimball, Lake Charles, La., is
majoring in Latin, and Jane Pinckney, Rich-
mond, Va., is majoring in English under
the honors plan of study.

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Volume XXVI, No. 3

Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Virginia

February, 1957

Sweet liriar To Be Host

F(ir Wnmaiipower Meelini*

Sweet Briar will be the setting, on March
15 and 16, for the first of several regional
conferences sponsored by the National Man-
power Council.

Co-sponsors of this conference, which
will be focused on "Womanpower and Edu-
cation," include- three Lynchburg industrial
firms, Glamorgan Pipe and Foundry Co.,
Craddock-Terry Shoe Corp., and Lynchburg
Foundry, and four other colleges: Hol-
lins, Mary Baldwin, Lynchburg College, and
Randolph-Macon Woman's College.

Approximately 45 representatives of in-
dustry, business, education, and a number of
state and national offices will participate in
the two-day workshop program. It is
planned as a group examination of the
National Manpower Council's study of
Womanpoiier. to be published early in
March.

Specialists from this area in \arious fields
of education, including secondary and pro-
fessional, will join in the group study with
representatives of several state and national
bureaus such as labor, employment, and
education.

Part-time employment, guidance and coun-
seling, education and training, and the many
changes in the entire manpower picture
which have resulted in new openings for
women in business and industry are among
the aspects of the topic which will be dis-

tUSScd.

Workshop sessions will be held Friday
morning and afternoon and an open meeting
is scheduled that evening. Study groups will
resume their work Saturday morning and a
conference summary will be held that after-
noon.

Assistant Dean Jean Louise Williams, who
also serves as director of vocational guidance,
is chairman of arrangements for the con-
ference.

Choir Tour Postponed

L'ncertain travel conditions in Europe and
lack ot sufficient funds to cover necessary
expenses have resulted in postponement of
the joint concert tour of the Sweet Briar
and University of Virginia choral societies
which had been planned for this summer.
It is hoped, however, that the tour can be-
come a reality in 1958.

Developiiieiit Program Gains Additional S100,000

Year-end gifts to the college have addej more than $100,000 to the December 1
total for the Golden Anniversary Development Program given in the "Roundup
Report," which was sent to all alumnae, parents and friends. By late January, the
over-all total of gifts and pkdges was more than $1,892,000.

addition to Mrs. duPont':

Miss Bland Dew Honored

An endowed scholarship in memory of
the late Miss Judith Bland Dew has been
established at Sweet Briar by her cousin,
Mrs. Alfred I. duPont of Wilmington, Del.,
with a gift of $22,571.

For many years before her death last
spring. Miss Bland Dew had frequently
visited Sweet Briar, which she dearly loved.
Her brother, William Bland Dew, was treas-
urer of the college from 1906 until 1942.
Her own gift was the first to be made toward
the new William Bland Dew Dormitory.
Se\eral of Miss Dew's nieces and grand-
nieces have attended the college, including
a present freshman, Elizabeth Dew, of Jack-
sonville, Fla.

Mrs. duPont's generosity to several Vir-
ginia colleges received special recognition
last April when she became the first woman
to be cited by the Virginia State Chamber
of Commerce "for her service to the state
through her philanthropic contributions to
Virginia colleges and universities." Her pre-
vious gifts to Sweet Briar include one to the
William Bland Dew Dormitory and several
tor scholarship purposes.

In thanking Mrs. duPont for creating the
Judith Bland Dew Scholarship Fund, Mrs.
Pannell wrote: "You have perpetuated in
the hearts of future generations of our stu-
dents the wonderful character and gallant
spirit of Miss Bland Dew."

A snowy Friday affernoon In January provided
excuse for a faculfy-sponsored "Winfer Carnival"
In the east dell, where coasting on cookie sheet'
was fast, if erratic. Plenty of hot cocoa topped
off the party.

In addition to Mrs. duPont's gift of
$22,571 to establish the Judith Bland Dew
Scholarship, other recent gifts included one
of $10,000 for the science building from the
Brown-Forman Distillers Corp. of Louisville.
Solicited by Mrs. W. L. Lyons Brown (Sara
Shallenberger, '32g), chairman of the new
Corporations Committee established by the
Board of Overseers, this was the first grant
made by this company outside the state of
Kentucky.

An additional $12,306 from members of
the Board of Overseers helped to push the
year-end gift sum above $100,000. Many
new "roundup " gifts from individuals and
alumnae clubs have been designated for the
Rollins Professorship of Religion, and that
fund is now more than $57,000. It must
reach $100,000 before the end of this year
to eflfect payment of a $50,000 conditional
grant from the Kresge Foundation.

Recent word from Dr. Connie M. Guion,
chairman of the Board's Development Com-
mittee, announced the good news that two
gifts made to the college in 1955 are to be
used to establish two new endowed profes-
sorships.

To help Sweet Briar attract and keep "the
most inspiring science teachers available in
a highly competitive field," so that they may
help the college turn out its share of well-
trained science graduates. Dr. Guion asked
that the $113,000 gift from Laurance, Da-
vid, Nelson, and Winthrop Rockefeller, and
their sister, Mrs. Jean Mauze, be used to
establish an endowed chair in chemistry.
They agreed enthusiastically and asked that
it be named "The Rockefeller-Guion Profes-
sorship of Chemistry."

Dr. Guion also wTote to Mr. and Mrs.
John Hay Whitney, who a year ago gave
$50,000 to the college in her honor, and
they were happy to approve her suggestion
that this be used to establish "The Betsey
Gushing and John Hay Whitney Professor-
ship of Physics." These endowments, added
to the Carter Glass Professorship of Govern-
ment and the Wallace £. Rollins Professor-
ship ot Religion, will give Sweet Briar four
endowed chairs.

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SWEET BRIAR ALUMNAE NEWS

February, 1957

Junior Year in France

Names Academic Heads

Two natives of France who are currently
teaching in this country have been named
as academic heads of the 1957-58 Junior
Year in France, according to President Anne
Gary Pannell of Sweet Briar College, which
has administered this foreign study program
since 1948.

Armand Begue,
who will be on leave
from Brooklyn Col-
lege where he is as-
sociate professor o(
French, will serve .is
Professor- in- charge,
succeeding Blanchard
Rideout, Cornell Uni-
versity. Miss Luci-
enne Idoine, now
teaching at Vassar
College, will be as-
sistant professor -in -
charge, as successor to Miss Josephine Ott.
Dr. Begue holds several diplomas from
the University of Poitiers and the University
of Paris, and he received his Ph.D. at Colum-
bia University in 1948. He has taught at
Brooklyn College since 1939, having previ-
ously taught at Columbia College for seven
years. In addition, he has taught in summer
schools at Columbia, Maryland, McGill, and
Western Reserve Universities. He directed
the McGill French summer school in 1949,
and in 1952 he was professor-in-charge of
the Yale-Reid Hall Summer Session in Paris.
Miss Idoine studied
in several French uni-
versities, her studies
having been inter-
rupted during the
war by deportation
to Germany where
she was held for two
years. Between 1946
and 1954, Miss Ido-
ine was affiliated
with the Smith Col-
lege junior year program in Geneva, and
taught summer courses at the Sorbonne in
Paris. After teaching at Hollins College for
a year she was appointed to the faculty at
Vassar.

More than 700 men and women from 110
American colleges and universities have been
enrolled in the Sweet Briar foreign study
program, now in its ninth year under the
direction of Dr. Joseph E. Barker, Sweet
Briar Colh'ge.

Midwinter Dances Planned

"Sweet Briar Carousel" is the title and
theme of this year's Midwinter dances, to
be held Feb. 22 and 23. Sandra Stingily,
'57, is dance chairman, assisted by other
members of the Social Committee. Carousel
horses, with plumes and streamers in tur-
quoise and white, will carry out the decora-
tive theme at dinner and formal dance Friday
and at the informal dance Saturday.

hlew Senior Course Offered

A new interdepartmental course, "Prob-
lems in Perspective," is being offered for the
first time this semester, for seniors only.

Three sessions will be devoted to each of
two topics. Prof. Belle Boone Beard will
direct the first. Juvenile Delinquency, and
Prof. Gerhard Masur the second, Latin
American Affairs. Guest sp-akers will pre-
sent various aspects of each topic at the first
session and faculty members will assist with
the student-led group discussions at the
second session a week later. On the follow-
ing day, the third session will be devoted to
reports of the discussion groups and to a
summary.

Objectives for this course are several: to
pro\ide for the seniors a common intellec-
tual experience which will link their aca-
demic training and their post - college
opportunities as citizens, workers, and
homemakers; to focus their attention on
major problems of the day; to help them
place these problems in perspective estab-
lished through their study and experience.

Conducted this spring on an experimental
basis as a non-credit offering, this course may
be continued next year. Prof. Milan E. Ha-
pala, chairman of the Division of Social
Studies, is chairman of the course.

Mrs. Lyman's Book Available

"Into All the World," an account of her
trip around the world during 1955-56 by
Mary Ely Lyman, dean of Sweet Briar from
1940 until 1950, was published just before
Christmas by Union Theological Seminary,
New York. Copies are on sale at the Sweet
Briar Book Shop at $1.00.

Photo iy lane Allijn, '60

Sv/eet Briar's former president, Miss Martha Lucas,
and former dean, Mrs. Mary Ely Lyman, returned
to campus together early in November, when Miss
Lucas delivered the Eugene William Lyman lecture,
"God's Man of the New Age." Later they were
guests of honor at a community reception in Dew.

Lyman Lecture Printed

"God's Man of the New Age,"
fifth in the series of Eugene William
Lyman Lectures which was delivered
last November by Miss Martha Lucas,
Sweet Briar's fourth president, is be-
ing published as the February issue of
the college bulletin series.

Copies are available upon request to
the Public Relations Office, Box 249,
Sweet Briar, Va.

Ph„l„ by Une Allan, '60

Five pointings representative of the second generation of Hudson River School painters were recently
displayed in Academic in an appropriately Victorian setting of dark red draperies, a stuffed partridge
and a small bronze statue. Painted by A. S. Tait, Daniel Huntington, David Johnson, Sanford Gifford,
and John Casilear, these paintings were given to the college by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Torrey,
Elon, Virginia.

IM;BRUAR^', 19'>7

SWEET BRIAR ALL'MNAE NEWS

Page 3

Many Freshmen Related

To Former Graduates

If numbers indicate an influential trend,
it appears that alumnae relatives influenced
many of this year's freshmen in their choice
of a college.

According to questionnaires filled out by
192 new students this year, 57 are related to
graduates or other former students of Sweet
Briar. Fourteen are daughters of alumnae,
many have older sisters who attended the
college, and a good many claim cousins,
aunts, or sisters-in-law among the alumnae.

Marianne Muse, Longview, Texas, has the
distinction of being the first grand-daughter
of an alumna to come to Sweet Briar. Her
grandmother, the former Hortensc- Gibbons,
was enrolled in the Academy in 1908-09.

Twenty-siv new students indicated that
their fathers attended colleges in Virginia,
and in addition to the 14 whose mothers
attended Sweet Briar, there are 14 whose
mothers went to other colleges in Virginia.

Reflecting the trend towards larger fami-
lies, 21 of those who entered Sweet Briar
this year come from families where there are
four children and 1 1 from families with five
children.

The entire group includes 183 freshmen
and nine students who entered with ad-
vanced standing, including three foreign
scholarship holders.

"Iolanthe" To Be Presented

Music is in the air, specifically Sullivan's
music for "Iolanthe," which is to be pro-
duced through the combined talents and
efforts of the Choir and Paint and Patches,
under the guidance of drama director Sidney
Freeman and choir director Edmund Allison.

Men's solo roles and choruses are being
filled with the aid of faculty members and
students from Lynchburg College, assuring
an enjoyably cooperative production in Flet-
cher Auditorium March 8 and 9.

This is probably the first time such a full-
scale production of any Gilbert and Sullivan
opera has been undertaken at Sweet Briar.
Rehearsals are now in progress, scenery is
beini; built and costumes are beine assem-
bled^

Polio Shots Adniinistered

Protecton against poliomyelitis has been
made available this year as a community
service at Sweet Briar, to adults as well as
to students.

Early in January, Dr. Carol M. Rice and
the two registered nurses at the Mary Harley
Infirmary administered second Salk vaccine
injections to more than 125 adults, including
members of the college staff and their fam-
ilies, for a minimum fee. Last October, Salk
injections were gi\en to students, and almost
200 are now listed as eligible for the final
inoculation late in the spring.

Entrance Gates Return to Sweet Briar

Once again, after an absence of more than
15 years, the familiar wrought-iron gates
will mark the entrance to Sweet Briar.

Records show that the gates, simple and
graceful in design and ornamented with a
monogram "SBC," were presented to the
college in 1921. According to a brief ac-
coant in the alumnae handbook of that year,
"A wrought-iron gateway now guards the
entrance to Sweet Briar and gives the new-
comer a fine first impression. This is the
gift of the Faculty to the College. During
the recent struggle for endowment (the cam-
paign of 1920) the Faculty showed them-
selves more than generous and in all the
campaigns at College they have always lent
a willing hand."

For almost 20 years the gates gave visitors
"a fine first impression," no doubt, but as
carriages gave way to automobiles and as
automobiles grew wider and more numer-
ous, the gates became too narrow to accom-
modate the traflic. But they served a useful
purpose, nonetheless, in keeping with social
customs of that era.

Not all visitors during the 20's and early
30's, it can safely be assumed, received a fine
first impression when they beheld the gates
of Sweet Briar. Among them were a good
many young men who arrived unexpectedly
on Sunday afternoons, only to find the gates
shut and guarded by the night watchman,
who played the role of Janus. In his keep-
ing was the list of "approved" visitors,
straight from the dean's hands, and no young
man who wasn't listed there could be ad-
mitted.

In such emergencies, which occured with
amazing frequency, the disappointed and
desperate young man would hastily scribble
a note to the young lady he wished to see
and dispatch it by whoe\er happened to be
going in that direction.

When and if the note reached her, if she
felt favorably disposed towards the would-
be caller, she had to search out the dean, or
the president of Student Government, to ask
for a special dispensation. If it was granted.

and if someone could be found to take this
word back to the gate, there might still be
time for the persistent young man to have a
short conversation with the lady before 6
o'clock, when all visitors had to leave cam-
pus.

Not even brothers or faculty members"
callers could find an easier way of admit-
tance, as they learned to their chagrin, ac-
cording to former students who remember
those days with a sigh and a smile.

By 1940, when the entrance road into
campus was re-located, the gates had given
way to progress. For some years they had
not been closed on Sundays, and they were
proving to be a hazard because they were
only wide enough for one-way traffic.

During World War II, when scrap iron
was being zealously collected, the gates were
almost sold, but at the last minute someone
with a feeling for the past must have pre-
vented their going onto the scrap pile.

Now the gates are being readied for use
at the entrance to Sweet Briar again. They
will be permanently mounted into red brick
pillars, not as gates but as an ornamental
entrance, calculated once more "to give the
newcomer a fine first impression."

Funds for this work are being raised bv
the father of a 1953 graduate of Sweet Briar,
who became interested in the project several
vei.rs apo.

Just off the press . . .

1 lie Storv

Sweet Briar College

h) M.^RTH.A Lou StOHLMAN

$4.50

SeiiJ your order to the Alumnae Office.
Make checks payable to Sweet Briar
Alumnae Association.

Page 4

SWEET BRIAR ALUMNAE NEWS

February, 1957

Summer Work Profitable

For Sweet Briar Students

Summer vacations are becoming more and
more profitable for Sweet Briar students,
who tind a variety of interesting ways to
serve as volunteers or to earn money for
college expenses.

A recent survey by the Vocational Guid-
ance committee, with 99*/^ returning the
questionnaire, shows that 207 students
earned a record total of $51,771 last sum-
mer, an average of $250. In 1955, 186
reported earnings of $44,841, for an aver-
age of $241.

As in other years, sophomores had the
highest earnings and the largest number of
workers. In all, 47 girls earned over $400,
and 119 reported between $100 and $400.
One sophomore made S775 as a tester in a
laboratory at Eastman Kodak.

A junior was a guest editor on Alademoi-
selle. and a sophomore danced in "The
Common Glory," famous historical pageant
at Williamsburg. Among other jobs re-
ported were the following: checker in a
super-market, IBM operator, medical tech-
nician, music instructor, tutor. Many girls
were camp counselors, clerical workers, sales
girls and/or models in college shops, office
workers, receptionists, waitresses. Six
worked on newspapers and four in labora-
tories, including a biology major who was
an apprentice in the research training pro-
gram at the Jackson Memorial Clinic in Bar
Harbor, Maine. Four were hospital aides
and four were switchboard operators.

Summer study was reported by 69, of
whom two studied in Mexico, one in Eng-
land and one in France. Another spent the
summer in Scotland under the Experiment
in International Living.

Volunteer service ranged from day camp
counseling to hospital work and included
office or clinical work for various kinds of
social welfare agencies. Local and national
political headquarters attracted a number of
students.

Most unusual, and perhaps the most re-
warding, were the service projects which
took four students far from their usual rou-
tines. Caroline Blake, a sophomore from
Needham, Mass., was one of 40 Winant
Volunteers from all parts of this country
who worked in several settlement houses in
London's East End. Caroline worked near
the Surrey Docks in Bermondsey, for six
weeks.

"I never saw such merry groups as those
I met in the seven clubs I worked with,
which included children of six up to adults
of 80 . . . My co-workers who came from
England, Europe, and Asia were equally en-
joyable. The strong Christian spirit that pre-
vailed among the leaders of the clubs was
most inspiring to all working with them . . .
The whole summer experience was a great
challenge ..." Caroline wrote.

Teaching in an Indian r.;ission on a N^v.
ajo reservation near Fort Defiance, Arizona,
proved to be equally rich and inspiring to
Olivia Benedict, Cincinnati, and Mary Lane
Bryan, Cleveland. Their duties included
teaching in the vacation church school, tak-
ing care of 16 pre-school children who lived
at the mission, and helping with the nightly
square dances in which old and young
joined. They sang in the choir on Sundays
and they guided visitors around the mission.
In addition they spent much time calling on
Navajo families in their hogans, visits which
required the assistance of an interpreter.

Libby and Mary Lane, who iirst heard of
the mission work from Bishop Watson when
he was at Sweet Briar for a Board of Over-
seers meeting a year ago. have recommended
it with enthusiasm to other Sweet Briar stu-
dents.

Another \'olunteer was Debbie Dunning,
of Brooklyn, Conn., who joined an Amer-
ican Friends Service Committee work camp
in Mexico.

Debbie's service included teaching art in
the village school, playing games with the
children, helping to translate some children's
books from English into Spanish, giving
English lessons to a doctor in exchange for

R.M. II . ( . ,V..|iv Bureau photo

Miss Iren Marik (center) Sweet Briar's Hungarian-
born pianist, played an unusually beautiful recital
of Hungarian music at Randolph-Macon's Smith
Auditorium early in December and netted over
$2000 for Hungarian relief. Students and alumnae
of Sweet Briar, Randolph-Macon, and Lynchburg
College worked together to make this an outstand-
ing community event. Alice Barnes, '57 (right) was
chairman of the Sweet Briar student committee, and
Martha McKay was one of Randolph-Macon's aides.
Miss Marik has given similar benefit recitals at
Hollins College, at Washington and Lee Univer-
sity, and in Richmond since Christmas.

Spanish tutoring. She and the other Amer-
icans in the group of 20 organized informal
entertainment for the village, ranging from
volleyball games to fiestas. Debbie feels that
she learned a great deal, in discussions with
her fellow-workers and from her daily life
with the villagers, whose friendliness and
good spirit were a continuing source of in-
spiration to the student volunteers.

Further interest in useful summer occupa-
tions is being stimulated through two open
meetings. One, held early in January, was
devoted to opportunities for paid employ-
ment; the second, early in February, will call
attention to volunteer service possibilities.
In conjunction with the latter, an 8-page
folder has recently been issued by the Y.W.
C. A., bringing to students' attention a va-
riety of requests for student volunteers for
summer projects directed by churches or in-
ternational welfare agencies.

NEWSLETTER ISSUE

Sweet Briar Alumnae News

sweet briar, virginia

Entered as second-class matter at tlie
Post Office, Sweet Briar, Va.

Published by Sweet Briar College
in October, November, February, March, May, June

M\,l) Iff

Siueei uf^ti^

ALUMNAE NEWS

1057

Sweet JStiar begins

its seeond hatf-ceHtury

with

William

Bland

Dew

Dormitory

tangible promise
of a bright future

S""^®»U

Miss Dorothy Jester, Dean of Students and Resident
Counselor, welcomes you to Dew.

Wc are dedicating this issue of the magazine to our first new building
since 19yl. If is exciting to see this evidence in brick and mortar of prog-
ress at Sweet Briar. We want yon to feel this excitement, too. We want
you to come and see Deiv Dormitory. The door stands open to welcome
alumnae and friends. In the following pages you will get an idea of
what Dciv means to those uho helped create it and those who live in it.

owed Bui an

ALUMNAE NEWS

THE SWEET BRIAR
ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

OFFICERS

Gladys Wester Horton, '30g

President

Phoebe Rowe Peters, '31g

First Vice-President
Ella-Prince Trimmer, '56g

Second Vice-President

Elizabeth Bond Wood, '34g

Executive Secrelttry ivid Treasurer

Nancy Dowd Burton, '46g

Cbiiirman of the AJtiiniide Fund

Alumna Member
BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Sara Shallenberger Brown, '32g

Alumnae Members
BOARD OF OVERSEERS

Nan Powell Hodges, 'lOg
Katherine Blount Andersen, '26g
Rebecca Young Frazer, '35g
Alma Martin Rotnem, '36g

MEMBERS OF THE
EXECUTIVE BOARD

Mari' Clark RocERS, '13
Dorothy Keller Iliff, '26g
Ellen Newell Bryan, '26
Marion Jayne Berguido, '28g
Vircinia Van Winkle Morlidge, '28g
NoRVHLL Rn)t;r Orgain, '30g
Ruth Hasson Smith, '30g
At.NES Clereliind Sandifer, '31g
Elizabeth Myers Harding, ■35g
Betty Smartt Johnson, '38g
Ann Morrison Reams, '42g
Sarah Louise Adams Bush, '43g
Mar(,u£rite Hume, '43g
Mar<,aret Munnerlyn Haverty, '47g
Barbara Ltsier Edgerley. '51g
Mary Lee McGinnis, '54g

VOLl'ME TWENTY-SIX

XLMBER FOIR March. 1957

Elizabeth Bond Wood, '34g Editor

Judith Feild Vogelback

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SPRING 1957

WILLIAM BLAND DEW DORMITORY
I. As Seen by the Architect
BY Robert S. Hutchins

II. As Seen by the Decorator
BY Ann Hatfield

III. Springs vs. Foam Rubber

BY Edith Stewart

IV. All That Glitters Is Not . . .

Unless You Live in Dew
BY Mary Ann Wilson, '57

TWO DIMENSIONAL VIEW OF DEW

HUNGARIAN INTERLUDE

BY Edna Lee Gilchrist, '26

ALUMNAE ATTEND STIMULATING SESSIONS
BY Prince Trimmer, '56

MARTHA LOU STOHLMAN A CANDIDATE
FOR BOARD OF OVERSEERS
REUNION '57

DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM MOVES AHEAD
BY John H. Detmold

DEGREE AWARDED TO DR. CONNIE GUION

PLANS BEGUN FOR MEMORIAL CHAPEL

WHY CANT YOU GROW WHEAT.'
BY Everard Meade

STUDENT ASSESSES STOHLMAN'S STORY'
BY Jane Pinckney, '57

BRIAR PATCHES

BY Elizabeth Johnston, '59

Member of the American Alumni Council

Issued six times yearly: November 1st and 15th, February, March, May, June,
by Sweet Briar College. Entered as second class matter November }0, 1931 at the
Postoffice at Sweet Briar. Virginia.

William Bland Dew
Dormitory

I. As Seen by the Architect

B) Robert S. Hutchins, F. A. I. A., of Moore and Hutchins, Architects

WHEN a building is completed,
fully equipped and in use, it is
hard to recall the many problems
which required solutions during the
planning and construction. In the
final result the various details should
become absorbed in the whole and
disappear. We hope that this is true
of the new William Bland Dew
Dormitory.

There have been few aspects of the
planning and construction of the
building in which we, as the archi-
tects, ha^'e not had a part, but many
others have borne a share of the
responsibilities. We are particularly
grateful for the continuous co-opera-
tion we have had from President Pan-
nell and the Committee on Architec-
tural Matters, whose chairman, Mr.
Massie, was a bulwark of strength.
We are also grateful for the valuable
assistance given by the Clerk of the
Works, Mn William R. Smith; the
Treasurer, Mr. Peter V. Daniel: and
the Director of Buildings and
Grounds, Mr. Lloyd R. Hoilman, as
well as many others of the college
faculty and staff. We would also like
to mention the structural engineer,
Matthew Hi Her of New York; the
mechanical and electrical engineers,
Henry Adams, Inc., of Baltimore, and
the decorators and color consultants,
Ann Hatfield Associates of New York.
We congratulate the general contrac-
tor, John W. Daniels, Inc., of Dan-
ville, Virginia, and their many sub-
contractors on having carried through
the actual construction with knowl-
edge and skill. Above all, they de-
serve high praise for having the build-

ing ready for its first occupants in
mid-September, 1956. The problems
raised by severe weather conditions,
labor shortages, delayed deliveries of
materials and a tight time schedule
cannot be appreciated except by those
who were most involved.

What should the architects say about
the building itself? The general rela-
tionship of the new building to the
campus plan had already been estab-
lished: it would adjoin Reid Hall and
share its dining facilities. The form
and arrangement of the building de-
veloped in the planning stage accord-
ing to various requirements:

1. The internal needs as established
by the Trustees and the Sub-
Committee on Dormitory Plans.

2. Desirable orientation of student
rooms to provide the maximum
of sunlight and attractive views.

3. The conformation of the land.

4. The relation in architectural com-
position to the campus buildings
and in particular, to the south
dormitory group.

The main entrance is on the first
floor at the campus level. Adjacent to
this entrance are the lobby, parlor, the
office and apartment of the Dean of
Students, and the guest room. The
remainder of the first floor is given
over to students' rooms of which there
are 5 double bedrooms, 4 single bed-
rooms, a 2-room suite for 3 students
and a 3-room suite for 4 students.

Below, the whole of the ground
floor is given over to recreational fa-
cilities and student activities. The
Emily Bowen recreation room opens

on terraces on both sides of the build-
ing. A small private dinmg room is
provided with a kitchen. There are
also four student offices and a student
laundry, a maid's room, and a wash
room with shower for male guests.

The second and third floors are
given over entirely to student bed-
rooms. The second floor has 7 double
rooms, 6 single rooms, 2 suites of
three rooms for 4 students each and
one 2-room suite for 3 students. On
this floor there is also a student lounge.
The third floor has 8 double rooms
and 5 single rooms, one suite of three
rooms for 4 students and one suite of
two rooms for 3 students. Each of the
upper floors has a student laundry and
a kitchenette. The student wash rooms
on each floor are consolidated for ease
of maintenance and economy. All stu-
dent rooms have built-in hardwood
wardrobes and most of them have
built-in chests of drawers. The floors
are of asphalt tile, the walls of smooth
painted plaster. All corridors are
acoustically treated to reduce noise.
Rooms are heated by convectors, re-
cessed under windows, supplied by
steam from the college power house.
Color schemes have been carefully
studied to produce variety in rooms
and a non-institutional character. Ex-
cept for the wood framing of the roof,
the construction of the building is in-
combustible throughout. The materials
are concrete, masonry and steel.
The stairways are fully enclosed. A
hand lift enables trunks to be moved
from the service entrance on the
ground floor to the various bedroom
floors. The interior finishes have been
carefully selected to provide the max-
imum ease of maintenance consistent
with economy.

Access to and from Reid Hall is
made easy by a two-story arcade which
opens on its upper level to the dormi-
tory quadrangle and on the lower level
to the flagstone terrace. The exterior
brick treatment harmonizes with the
adjacent Reid and Grammer Halls and
maintains the established architectural
character of the campus.

As architects we take much satis-
faction in our part in the completion
of the William Bland Dew Dormitory
and hope that the building may serve
the college well in the years to come
and contribute much to the life of its
students.

Alnnnide Neu's

ANY dormitory for girls is a very
.special thing. It is a sort of hous-
ing de\elopment for young women of
all income groups, their living habits
limited by a self-imposed way of life.
But the character of a dormitory at
Sweet Briar necessarily differs from
other college dorinitories for many
reasons. The physical ones are pretty
obvious: it must lit into the country-
side with its aura of past gracious liv-
ing and present warming beauty; with
the surrounding campus buildings, so
full of extra space and so impressively
well-cared for; and with Sweet Briar
House, designed to imply physical
comfort and the good life.

Spiritual differences are harder to
define, but they played an important
part in the final design and execution
of the new dormitory at Sweet Briar.
If William Bland Dew Hall is signifi-
cant in expressing present character
and future hope, much credit is due
to the patience and taste of officials
and friends of the college who worked
so hard to resolve every problem in the
final choice of color, fabrics, and fur-
niture.

The role of interior designer in such
a situation has many facets. In addi-
tion to relating the parts to the whole,
she must act as sounding-board, inter-
preter, go-betu'een, tester of fabrics
for durability, guide for the painter
who is sure that he has a much prettier
color than the one specified, and ar-
ranger of social traffic. (How to keep
boys and girls close enough but not
too close.' How to keep father and
mother happy outside the dean's office?
How to keep cooking and bridge go-
ing well side by side in a small
room .•' )

Since the nature of a dormitory is
rather like that of a beehive, there
must be as many cells as possible. The
architects designed the bedrooms in
such a way that, although compact,
their shapes vary. The built-in closets
and chests prevent the clutter which
would make them seem smaller than
they are. Living and sleeping spaces
have been further differentiated by
varying color .treatment. Bedrooms
have walls of either soft gray-blue,
gray-green, or grayed apricot. Living
rooms in suites have been treated more
boldly, with three walls of off-white,
the other a strong color. Thus there
is no feeling of the drear)- monotony

11. As Seen by the Decorator

by Ann Hatfii:ld, A. I. D. of Ann Hatfii:ld Associates

which is too often characteristic of
such housing.

Public spaces were something of a
challenge because of the budget. It is
the universal experience of the interior
designer to discover, by the time she is
called in, that building costs have
tripled, and that what was once an
adequate budget for furnishings has
dvvindled frighteningly. Thus we
could afford only the most necessary
furniture, and had to de\ ise some way
to conceal the fact that the paintings,
the bibelots, the accessories which give
rooms warmth and sparkle, were miss-
ing.

In the Parlor, the basic pieces are
well made, well designed, and covered
with durable, practical, and essentially
dark fabric. The drama is produced by
a generous use of especially printed
linen drapery hung over plaster at the
right and left of the great bay win-
dow, with dark brown walls and a
pale rug as foils. Table lamps are
large in scale. The room does not
seem meagerly furnished.

Because we neither wished nor

could afford a conventional indoor
Recreation Room, we used rattan fur-
niture, usually found on porches.
Happily, because of the great sweep
of country-side seen through the long
windows, the rattan furniture, slip-
covered in tough, washable sailcloth,
seems perfectly appropriate. The wall
colors, mainly off-white with accents
of cerulean blue, brick, and black, are
so related to the plaids and solid colors
of the fabrics, the dark asphalt tile
floor, and the sisal rugs, as to make the
total effect of the Emily Bowen Room
very gay and pleasant.

The Burnett Dining Room, for im-
portant occasions, has generous wall
space. There were no paintings, no
wall brackets, no old silver. To avoid
monotony, the walls were painted
three different colors — cerulean blue,
gunmetal, and burnt sienna. The ny-
lon carpet is yellow on a black floor.
The drapery, inexpensive but volumi-
nous, is gunmetal lineal fruit on a
white ground. Requirements of the
room demanded that sixteen people
(Continued on piige 18)

Miss Dorothy lester, in her crttraelive aparlmenl in Dew, pours lea for Miss Edith
Stewart as Ihey describe some o! their experiences as members of the Decorating Com-
mittee to Mrs. Arthur Vogelback of the Alumnae OHice and Jane Pinckney, a senior.

Sprinc, 1957

IIL Springs vs. Foam Rubber

by Edith Stewart
AJm/i/ii/ni/ire Ai.\/.\/dilf lo Presicleiil Pdii/iell

THE request from your Alumnae
News editor to the Decorating
Committee for an article describing
our work on William Bland Dew
Dormitory brought a reaction some-
what as follows:

Writing about the new dormitory
certainly wasn't for us. We lived
through it once and that was
enough. Besides, if handling
words was the thing we did best,
we probably would not have
found ourselves on a Decorating
Committee, the members of
which sooner or later develop a
strong desire for anonymity.
Somehow every decision seemed
so permanent and so noticeable.
What if we were wrong and
those poor students had to live in
the midst of our mistakes? What
if we spent the college's money
unwisely and more had to be
spent to correct our errors? Or
worse yet, suppose they can't be
corrected? And, after all, hadn't
our assignment finally been tied
up and handed in, accompanied
by an account sheet? We thought
our work was done.

That all of these reactions were
short-lived is proven by this attempt
to tell you something about it. The
fact of the matter is we dicJ live
through it and when everything else
is tabulated and filed the residual
memory is that it was exciting, and
that so many other people had so
much more to do with it than we did.
After all, we weren't the professionals
on the job but just an assortment of
amateurs called together periodically
to provide a collective answer to care-
fully selected questions posed (and
doubtless limited) by an architect and
a decorator in whom we always had
considerable and constantly growing
confidence. Mr. Hutchins was one of
our favorite men; each time we saw
Mrs. Hatfield we found new bonds of
friendship.

Aside from the students' recreation

building which was built in 1948 and
which differed in function and design
from the other buildings on campus,
the most recent building at Sweet
Briar was the Gymnasium, erected in
1931. The last dormitory had pre-
ceded it by thirty-one years. Thus no
one on the committee had lived
through this process before. No one
had seen innumerable pieces of paper
become a building — complete, fur-
nished and ready to function.

V^ E hung over squares of colored
asphalt tile, surrounded by samples of
paint. We pored over furniture cata-
logs and crawled through the furni-
ture departments of stores. We took
turns holding swatches of material
against the walls, with and without
their matching or complementary sam-
ples of paint. Plastic versus leather
(and the cost); screws versus nails
(and the cost); springs versus foam
rubber (and the cost). On hands and
knees we measured the size of an
imaginary room and an imaginary bed

to see in how many different positions
it could be placed, until two talented
and kindly colleagues cut out for us
pieces of cardboard drawn to scale so
that everything could be tested. We
called for bids, argued over the results
and used yards of adding machine
papier trying to figure out the best buy.

X. HERE was one lovely weekend
when three members of the committee
were to fly to the furniture factory to
see if the product was as good as it
sounded. One couldn't go, and the
other two drove to the airport in pour-
ing rain to sit for hours in unjustified
hope. But by a fluke another commit-
tee member came home with a sample
large enough to be tested.

Two members of the committee
went to New York to make final de-
cisions on samples carefully sifted
from innumerable possibilities by Mrs.
Hatfield and by Miss Voelcker. An-
other member, traveling on other busi-
ness, joined them there and for a long
day they sat down and got up and sat
down and got up, crawled under and
around pieces of furniture, walked in
small circles and large circles, felt
fabrics, moved pieces of furniture into
groups, separated pieces, regrouped
them and walked through miles of
New York's furniture mart under the
expert guidance of the decorators.
And all the time the work was being

A double bedroom in Dew Dormitory; Emma Matheson hard at work on her next theme.

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done over there in what was for so
long a hole in the ground but which
eventually sprouted visible walls, be-
came a shell, and at long last, praise
be, a recognizable structure with a roof
to keep out the rain.

The first consignment of furniture
was greeted with cries of joy; we actu-
ally telephoned each other to announce
its arrixal. This exuberance didn't last
long. The pile of invoices grew, all
a\ailable storage space was filled, Car-
roll Henson and his crew of men plied
back and forth to the railroad station
bringing more and more in the Sweet
Briar truck until it seemed inconceiv-
able that it would all fit into itny
building on campus. Everything was
crated or boxed, and identified only
by strange letters or numbers and mys-
teriously addressed to such non-exist-
ent places as "Parlor — Dean's Office."
All invoices were written in code. At
this point, whether they knew it or
not, our greatest source of courage and
strength was Bernard Johnson and his
men as they patiently loaded, un-
loaded, picked up, put down, carried
— and waited. There was never a
break in this long labor in the hot
weather when Bernard's lovely, rumb-
img laugh could not be heard cheering
his men — and us.

Time grew shorter and the delays in
completing the building grew longer.
Missing construction materials were
traced, rushed, and installed. The
contractor's men were alternately
working overtime or left waiting for
some missing link.

Finally came the day when the top
floor was finished and turned over to
the college. Electricians, carpenters,
telephone men, plasterers and paint-
ers, contractors and sub-contractors,
specialists and consultants filled the
other floors of the building. Through,
around and o\er them, patiently, Ber-
nard and his men carried furniture to
be distributed in the rooms now "ours."
Then came the second floor, then part
of the first. Mrs. Rockett and Mrs.
Elynn had gathered unto themselves
all the maids and other help that they
(.ould find, and cleaning, arranging,
and polishing were going on every-
where at once. No campus family
had a maid, or a baby-sitter, or a laun-
dress — they were all in Dew. So, for
that matter, was almost everyone else
at Sweet Briar. The tempo acceler-
(ConlinneJ on page 18)

THANKS TO V. F. I. C.

In bringing you this word-and-
picture report on William Bland
Dew Dormitory, we wish to extend
the thanks of the entire college for
gifts made by business and indus-
try through the 'Virginia Foun-
dation for Independent Colleges,
which helped to make this beau-
tiful new building possible.

The major share of funds re-
ceived by Sweet Briar through the
generosity of corporations support-
ing the 'Virginia Foundation is
directed to current operations
affecting the quality of the col-
lege's instructional program. A
substantial portion of these funds
is being applied to the improve-
ment of faculty salaries, but other
aspects of Sweet Briar's academic
program are also benefiting as a
result of the demonstrated interest
of corporations in the twelve pri-

vately supported colleges affiliated
with the Virginia Foundation.

Once received by the member
colleges Virginia Foimdation funds
are unrestricted as to use. The
governing board of each college
applies the funds to any purpose
or need considered acute in
strenthening the general college
program.

From approximately $97,000 in
corporate financial assistance
which Sweet Briar has received
through its participation in the Vir-
ginia Foundation since 1953, the
Board of Overseers has allocated
S19,20G to the WiUiam Bland Dew
Dormitory. Thus our friends in
business and industry have contri-
buted a ten per cent share of the
nearly $200,000 raised to date for
Sweet Briar's first new building
in twenty-five years.

IV. All That Glitters Is Not . . .
Unless You Live in Dew

by Mary Ann 'Wilson, '57

WHAT is new in Dew? Do not
be misled by its brightly bare
fa(,ade, as yet unsoftened by twining
creepers considered necessary in ren-
dering a truly hallowed "Halls of Ivy"
atmosphere. Dew's beauty is more
than skin-deep; her novelties are mani-
fold; the innovations extend beyond
the commonplace.

Most new things receive a name
before they actually come into being.
So it was with William Bland Dew
Dormitory. Yet William Bland Dew
Dormitory is bowing to the modern
collegiate trend of shortening, pervert-
ing and completely changing a given
name. It has been thoughtfully con-
sidered by its new inhabitants and
several adequate cognomen are now
accepted. The most prevalent is
"Dewdorm,' one word.

During their first week the Dewites
found more than one missing link in
this evolutionary achievement of a
veritable modern dormitory in the
midst of otherwise dated facilities.
Since there were no screens at first,
Dew underwent an invasion of all
forms of the insect kingdom. Every

light had its halo of moths; every ear
its insistent gnat. Brushing away flies
became a nervous habit. One never
knew the exact moment to dodge when
the grasshoppers began hopping gaily
out of closets, beds and drawers.

There must have been a mistaken
address on the bells. They were surely
intended for a munitions factory.
Their clarion call would shame the
hounds of Hades, especially when they
blast the silent Sabbath at 6:13 a.m.
In the beginning the bells were not
alone as general activators. The rising
bell was preceded each morning by the
shouts, whistles, laughter, hammers
and machines which signified that
work was still going on.

Do not think, however, that these
minor inconveniences could mar the
general bliss of the first residents.
What is dust from landscaping when
one has closet space for the first time
in years.'' Can a grasshopper destroy
the absolute luxury of showers which
do not alternately freeze or scald their
utilizers because of certain inexplicable
connections with other facilities.'
(CoiilhiiieJ on page 18)

Spring 1957

TWO
DIMENSIONAL

From the bay window in the parlor looking across campus to Fletcher

The Emily Bowen Recreation Room. The french doors open onto terraces; the doorway in the
rear leads to the dining room, the kitchen, and to student ofiices.

The reception desk iust inside the Iront entrance.
Florence Barclay welcomes the callers.

Built-in chests and closets are featured in Dew.

The little kitchen in the second floor lounge
is convenient for snacks.

VIEW OF DEW

COME TO SEE IT IN THE ROUND

How appropriate it is that Sweet Briar's first major new building in
twenty-five years should be named for the beloved first treasurer,
William Bland Dew, who arrived two days before college opened and was
to stay for his lifetime. Nan Powell Hodges, '10 speaks for hundreds of Sweet
Briar students when she recalls Mr. Dew as "the slim man with the gray suit
and soft brown hat walking up the hill to his office, freguently with his pipe
in his mouth . . . 'Ask Mr. Dew' was a frequent expression; and we asked
him about everything. He was always kind, often a little amused but ever
ready to give us the benefit of his extensive reading and his wise philosophy.
We enjoyed his keen humor and ready wit even when, in his teasing way,
he directed them toward our youthful weaknesses and foibles."

One of the faculty acknowledged that "No one could touch him for quick
perception, and there was no better mind on the faculty. His prejudices was
his playthings, never his master; and an abiding sense of justice was the
basis of his character, just as his kind heart underlay his within keen
criticism. He was chock full of tradition, and his witty talk was the delight
of the place."

Mr. Dew would have liked this building. He would have approved of
the wise planning that resulted in these colorful and comfortable rooms for
"his girls," in whom for 38 years, he took such a personal interest.

The dining room furnished in honor of Eu-
genia Griffin Burnett, 'lOg, is used for state
occasions.

The modern kitchen on the ground floor lures
two students to bake a batch of brownies.

The parlor in Dew, just off the reception hall. On the wall to the left is a fireplace.

Dew provides the latest thing in equipment!

Hungarian Interlude

i6) Edna Lee Gilchrist, '26i;

IT was a crisp winter's day last July
when the word first came. "The
word" was from the Department of
State and it requested Edward Thomp-
son Wailes, then American Ambassa-
dor to the Union of South Africa, to
move to Budapest to head our Lega-
tion in that explosive Iron Curtain
country,

"We were there!" Joan and Judy
Cox, my fifteen year old daughters,
and I had received in the early spring
a far -too -good -to -miss invitation to
\isit our dear friends, and the girls'
godparents, Cornelia and Tom Wailes,
and we had a glorious and never-to-
be-forgotten trip.

The Wailes had been in South
Africa less than two years. They were
admired and beloved by South Afri-
cans as well as the diplomatic colony,
and Tom, as Ambassador, felt he was
making progress toward African-Am-
erican understanding in his efforts to
see that America learned the good and
progressive accomplishments of this
fascinating country instead of only
the sensational ones. They had trav-
elled many milss by plane and car and
narrow-gauge train but still wanted to
do more exploring. Cornelia had
almost completed the redecoration of
the two embassies, one in Pretoria,
where we were then living, and one
in Capetown.

Although most government business
is transacted in Pretoria, and this is
where the Diplomatic Corps lives and
works during seven months of the
year, the Chiefs of Mission, and usu-
ally their Political Advisers and per-
haps one or two other members of the
Staff, move to Capetown for the five-
month session of the Legislature. For
this reason our government owns two
embassies; the one in Pretoria a bit
more "homey," — all on one floor with
a lo\ely big dropped living room (in
which Cornelia had used colorful
chintzes), a large dining room (added
during the Wailes' tenure), a thatched
roof, a swimming pool and tennis
court; while the Capetown residence
is more stately, with formal rooms,

lovely brocades and a balustraded ter-
race overlcxjking Cape Point itself,
more suited to the type of living and
entertaining done there.

Thus it was with real regret that
the Ambassador and his wife learned
of Budapest. A life in the Foreign
Service, however, accustoms one to
change; there was a definite challenge
in the new job; and, although Tom
was too modest to admit it, the em-
bassy stafi as well as we laymen real-
ized the great compliment that had
been paid him in selecting him tor this
difficult assignment.

Ambassador 'Wires Acceptance

So — his wire of acceptance went
forward and we were all on pins and
needles to learn what would come
next. Nothing could be mentioned
about the new assignment before the
"Agrement" (the consent or agree-
ment of the government of a country
to accept a new Ambassador or Min-
ister) was received from Hungary and
since, no doubt, the puppet Hungarian
government had to check with Mos-
cow before making any statement, this
was delayed. Meanwhile, The Netv
York Times had somehow heard and
broken the story "Wailes to Leave
South Africa" which took no time
at all in covering the oceans and con-
tinents between New York and Pre-
toria ! Thus for several days everyone
knew the Ambassador was leaving but
no one could say where he was going!
Budapest became "that place" in our
conversation and we all felt very cloak
and daggerish as we parried questions
from curious and interested friends.

A "Post Report " prepared annually
by the State Department on "that
place " was available and told of the
house-hold goods, medicines, foods,
etc., which should be taken; of the
lack of good medical care but of the
U. S. Government plane ready to fly
any ill person to 'Vienna (100 miles);
of the size of the residence; of the
fact that the servants spoke only Hun-
garian (a bitter blow to Cornelia!);
and that spies and listening devices

were ever present. Adventurous if not
reassuring!

Plans for the move began imme-
diately although Cornelia, perfect host-
ess that she is, never let this intrude
itself on the smoothly running life of
the embassy. We continued to do all
the delightful things she had arranged
tor our \isit and after our departure
I learned she had given a formal din-
ner for twenty, two days before they
left.

The Wailes Return to Washington

Since the Ambassador realized he
would need special briefing on Hun-
garian affairs and the American
viewpoint in relation to them, he
and Cornelia came to Washington in
September.

In spite of the fact that our Foreign
Service had suspected an Hungarian
uprising of sojne sort in the not too
distant future, th:- brave revolt of late
October came suddenly. All the free
world cheered and our new Hungarian
Minist.?r wanted to be there. So, on
October 31st — a pelting, rainy Hal-
lowe'en — he took ofl^ from Idlewild
for "Vienna. I happened to be in New
York so could have lunch with him
before he flew. He told me during
that lunch of a "Courtesy Call" from
the Hungarian Minister to the United
States, each principal accompanied by
a Counselor, during which they had
talked of the bees and flowers in Hun-
gary and America, neither of them
wishing to touch on any more momen-
tous subjects. The government which
the Hungarian Minister represented
was, of course, no longer in power and
no doubt both of them felt anything
they might say "could be held against
them." Too, the hopeful, wishful-
thinking plans that day were that Cor-
nelia would follow on the next sailing
of the Unilcd Sidles, complete with
dog, car and luggage.

The trip went well and the new
Minister arrived safely in Budapest
during those now famous five days
when the "true Hungarians" held the
city.

Russians Crush Revolt

Suddenly all was different. Russian
power had again asserted itself and
hope had been lost.

Cornelia stayed glued to her tele-
phone in Washington waiting for the
infrequent messages that came to the
State Department and were forwarded

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to her — often saying only, "All still
alive." Several times even diplomatic
connections were severed and although
sympathetic friends tried to assure her
that neither the Hungarians nor the
Russians would want to harm the
American Minister, it was small com-
fort when one learned from the news-
paper maps that the American Lega-
tion was but a scant block from the
Houses of Parliament which were un-
der constant bombardment.

At long last messages became more
frequent and, finally, a letter which
someone had carried out to Vienna tor
mailing. This told of the evacuation
of all the Legation children and most
of the women, while the men, along
with five wives (30 in all plus 20 or
more journalists), were living in the
Legation Ofilice Building — all of the
typing, filing and cooking being done
by these same five wives ! Tom wrote
too of receiving Cardinal Mindzenty,
of what a "grand old man" he was,
and of the fact he had given him his
office where "he (the Cardinal) ate,
slept and said Mass." The Minister
himself had a mattress on the floor in
an adjoining office.

November progressed. Cornelia
spent Thanksgiving with us at Sweet
Briar, our girls came home from board-
ing school to see her, she met and
talked with Iren Marek, and although
"the dog, the car and the luggage"
seemed destined to remain behind, the
State Department had at last heeded
her plea and it began to look as if the
Wailes family would be reunited.

I went to Washington on the after-
noon of December 1st, together we
took the sleeper for New York and on
Sunday atternoon. December 2nd, an
old friend of the Wailes family and I
waved the courageous and \enture-
.some wife of the new American Min-
ister to Hungary off on a plane for
Vienna.

Here excerpts from her letters can
take over the tale. Her cheery matter-
of-factness in the face of any and all
situations will, 1 know, thrill you as
it has m.-.

Budapest, Dec. 5

"Here I am I The flight was, I am
glad to say, uneventful; really not bad
at all and we made some sort of a
record to Ireland. Arrived in Vienna
about 1 p.m. ( 10 a.m. New York
time). (Note: The plane had left
New York 3:.^0 p.m.). Was met by

Mrs. Thompson, wife of the Ambas-
sador, three Budapest wives and one
of the Budapest officers who was in
Vienna on business. Went to Em-
bassy, had a good hot soak and a rest
— then the Budapest wives for drinks
at 6. Tom phoned at 8, then dinner
and to bed. Left Vienna at 9:30 yes-
terday with the officer from here who
had driven out last week. It was rain-
ing buckets, but never mind. No trou-
ble at the border — only about 10
minutes — sometimes it takes an hour
for the papers to be checked. Once
inside Hungary I relaxed! We were
stopped only four times by Russian
soldiers (with guns) to have passports
checked. They stand by the road and
you'd really better stop — or else!

"When we drove into the city the
streets were packed with men and
women, most of them with a loaf of
bread under the arm, and as we got
near the Legation we saw more and
more Russian tanks making road
blocks. Couldn't get up to the front
door as there were hundreds of people
in front singing, waving Hungarian
flags, etc., so left the car and came in
a back door. The mob was shouting,
"Go home Russians,' then "U. S. and
U. N. help us," then "God bless Mr.
Dulles, " then more singing.

"Finally found Tom! He had been

looking out of the window and when
he went out on the balcony there was
a huge cheer. Three of the leaders
( women ) asked for an interview with
Tom so he went down to the front
door to talk with them. After they
had delivered their message and he
had replied he asked them to get the
crowd away as he was afraid someone
would get hurt. The leader would
make a perfect top sergeant ! She
turned, shouted a few words, and off
the mob went! In the midst of all
the singing a Russian tank went
through the- crowd but no one was
hurt fortunately, as they all jumped
aside or ran ahead of it. Tom was
afraid for them though as they might
not be so lucky next time. It really
was a welcome I'll never forget!"

December 7th. "... Another big
demonstration yesterday afternoon and
more tanks! At six we went to din-
ner with one of the staff families who
had returned to their house, but back
to the office .soon after eight as there
is a 9 o'clock curfew and the driver
had to get home. There is a rumor
this morning that the bridges are full
of tanks — and we have four police
outside instead of the usual two. No
one knows what will happen from day
to day.

Ambassador and Mrs. Wailes on the terrace of the American Embassy at Capetown,

South Airica. Mr. Wailes is a member of the Board of Overseers of Sweet Briar

College and Mrs. Wailes {Cornelia Wailes '27) is an alumna.

Sprinc. 1957

"Tom and I have a small room off
his office and a lavatory, a bed and a
mattress on the floor, sheets and blan-
kets, plent)' of heat and hot water.
The Commissary is well stocked and
the small coffee shop in the building
is now operating again so we are all
set.

"Met the Cardinal the night I ar-
rived but haven't seen him since as he
keeps to his room. He speaks only
Hungarian and German so I couldn't
really talk to him. Do write whenever
you can — mail seems to be coming in
regularly now."

"P. S. Decided to hold this till
pouch goes out on Saturday. Just had
word there will be a demonstration
from 2 to 3 today, but a silent one !
No one will be on the street! Have
been hearing more about the 'show'
yesterday. I was at the Barnes' and
Tom was somewhere in the office so
neither of us saw all of it but several
of our people did see a Russian tank
stopped by two Hungarian men who
lay down in the street in front of our
Legation and defied the tank to run
over them. The tank took to the side-
walk instead! The rumor was that this
morning would be noisy but everyone
who has been out reports the Hungar-
ians quiet and the Russians jittery.
Just hope they don't get trigger happy.
. . . Didn't go to the Barnes' last night
after all. There was quite a bit of
excitement on the street and Tom
wanted to be here if needed."

December 26th. "... We have
moved in our house! — on top of the
painters. They finally finished the bed-
room floor so we have curtains hung,
rugs down and a small Christmas tree
in the corner. 'We had eight for cock-
tails last Saturday in the large square
hall outside the bedrooms. Yesterday
the Barnes (Counselor) and "W^ailes
had all Americans for drinks and cold
turkey at the Barnes! . . . Winter has
come with a vengeance. It started
snowing the 21st and by the 23rd we
couldn't drive up hills so had to walk
a half mile or so from the car when
1 went out to a luncheon. Our office
car had no chains or snow tires so we
are ordering both from Vienna and
hope we can get them as I'm really
scared of these hills. Children coasting
and on skis on all the streets and they
pay no attention to skidding cars!

Since mo\ing out to the house I've

only been in town once so haven't seen
much of interest. The Russian tanks
are still all o\er the pilace and yester-
day coming home from church passed
a weapons carrier with guns pointed
and soldiers at the alert. . . . Sunday,
t\\'o young Legation officers brought
their wives and children in from
Vienna. One car skidded into a ditch
and the other into a snow bank, and
all this just ahead of a large Russian
convoy! The convoy stopped, twenty
Russian soldiers got out, lifted the cars
back on the road and waved them
away! It took them ten hours for the
100 mile drive so you can imagine the
condition of the roads. . . . Must go
down and confer with the 'chef.' Did
I tell you he writes daily food orders
in English, daily menus in French, and
speaks only Hungarian and German!

January 2nd. "... This morning
we had a meeting of Legation wives
and are starting relief work, of course
on a small scale but something any-
how. Will write more about this later.
. . . New Year's Eve the curfew was
lifted for diplomats so we went to
our Air Attache's house for dinner.
Had a fine time but I must say it was
jolting when we were stopped at 1:30
a.m. tor examination of papers and a
soldier held a pistol in the open win-
dow while they checked everything
about the chauffeur."

January 7th. "... Today is warm
and clear — first really clear day since
I arrived. The snow is melting and
the streets gettng more clear. Suppose
just in time for the next blizzard. The
Barnes are going to Vienna tomorrow
for a few days so Mrs. B. is going to
do some shopping for me — home per-
manents, cream shampoo, material for
maid's uniforms, hand lotion, etc. It
seems impossible that a city of this
size doesn't have these things but if
they're here I haven't been able to find
them. . . . Our status is still so uncer-
tain that we haven't yet been able to
set a date for Judy and Charles (the
dog and chauffeur) and the car to
come. Each week we think we will
know something one way or the other.
(Note: Mr. Wailes has not presented
his Letters of Credence since th;
United States is not as yet willing to
recognize to that extent the Kadar
government. Thus, although Mr.
Wailes is in charge of the Legation,
all business with Hungarians still is

conducted, officially, by Mr. Barnes,
the C^ounselor, since he was previously
accredited and still holds this posi-
tion.)

January 17th. "Our little relief
project started when Sarah Rogers,
wife of one of the young officers,
wrote her family, friends and church
at home telling some of the needs and
asking tor contributions. The checks
began arriving and we went to work.
Of course any clothing is welcome but
the expense of shipping and the time
involved is a problem, for the imme-
diate need is great. We have been able
to buy, in Vienna, warm cotton blan-
kets for $2.00, warm underwear and
pajamas for about $1.00. We are
working in the shelled-out districts
and in the poorer sections — things
were grim at best but now it is almost
unbelievable. Yesterday two of our
wives visited the following family:
House and all belongings destroyed
— living in one room — no furniture,
beds or bedding — no clothes except
what they have on. Man earning
$30.00 per month. Sons 16 and 13;
daughters 10 and 7; sons 4 and 3;
new baby expected next week! Fortu-
nately one of our girls has a bassinet
she is taking to them today. Another
is taking a case of milk she says her
children can do without. From our
'stock pile' we were able to send warm
underwear for each member of the
family and two blankets for eight of
them ! It is a heart-breaking yet heart-
warming job and as you can see we are
in it up to our ears.

Enough of tragedy for the moment.
The painters have almost finished.
The curfew suits us fine as there is
practically no 'night work.' We listen
to B. B. C. and V. O. A. and are usu-
ally in b;d by 9 o'clock.

January 19th. "Tom is at the office
and r\e just finished an hour with the
most magnificent Hungarian. He must
have been at least a Count ! He now
makes slip covers and curtains and I'm
having him cut up some old chintz
draperies and use the unfaded parts
for slip covers for our bedroom. After
our negotiations we agreed on $3.00
each for the slip covers, he kissed my
hand and bowed out !

January 27th. "Know there won't
be a chance to mail this for a week so
will add a few lines from day to day

Almiiihie Neu

but wanted to ^ct this bit on paper.
Yesterday we had our first liouse guest,
Mrs. (^happell. She was arrested se\cn
weeks ago crossing the border from
Austria to Hungary with some few
relief supplies, mostly medicines. She
had her American passport but no
Hungarian visa, Crossed at night with
one man. Knew she shouKln't be do-
ing it but thought she'd try; hoped
she'd get away with it and at worst
would be turned back. Not so! She
was brought to Budapest and thrown in
jail. The authorities denied all knowl-
edge of her and it was only after about
a month that a released prisoner let us
know where she was and after that it
took about three weeks to arrange a
trial. She was finally turned over to
our Consul yesterday and had to be
out of Hungary today for ever. She
came right from prison to us so we
gave her a drink and turned her loose
in the bathroom. She is size 12 so you
can imagine how my clothes fitted, but
at least they were a change from boots
and tweed trousers. We had to go out
so left her to hair washing, etc., and
when we got back she looked fine.
Needless to say she was dying to talk,
and talk she did till 12:30. Then a
few hours sleep and she has just left
for 'Vienna, being driven out by Dick
Selby, our Consul. Just looked out the
window and it has started to snow
again. Heaven knows how they will
get through today — the road is bad
enough at best but with more snow
it may be impassable and she must be
gotten to Austria today. Her exper-
iences would fill a book but she will
write that I'm sure so 1 won't attempt
to. She has done news photography
for some years and is an interesting
person — 37 years old, long blond hair,
glasses — but you will probably have
seen her picture in the paper before
you get this.

January 30th. "We have had three
warm sunny days so the ice is melting.
Mrs. Chappcll got to 'Vienna with no
trouble and probably is in the States
by now."

February 5th. "I'm glad to say
there is nothing exciting to write
about. W'c never know from day to
day ... I have a new dress ! Some-
one got some na\y crepe for me in
Vienna and I went to the famous
Hungarian Couturier, 1 think it
turned out very well and with our
rate of exchange cost me .so little

SPRiNd 1957

I was almost ashamed to pay the
bill. I've seen pictures of the salon
this man formerly had and it was mag-
nificent — used to have 1,000 guests
for his showings. Then in '48 it was
taken away from him lock, stock and
barrel and is now a children's home,
I understand. Today he and four girls
sew, tit, etc., in two small, dark, cold
rooms up two long flights of stairs."

February 1 8th. "I must say that the
uncertainty of our position here is
beginning to get on our nerves a bit.
We ne\er plan ahead and feel thor-
oughly unsettled. I would love for
Tom to get a breather but he is not
willing to leave the country. We
have read so many paper-back detec-
tives that we have now switched to
Westerns for a change. Our Military
and now our U. S. I. S. are beginning
to get a few movies — some pretty
old but yesterday we saw 'Guys and
Dolls.' Took our servants and I'm
afraid they didn't understand a word,
but we enjoyed it thoroughly."

And — as we go to press — the final
chapter:

Vienna — February 27th. "As you

can imagine we're in a rush, but we're
on our way! Wiring you tomorrow.
Wanted to phone you tonight but
there is one to six hours delay and
we are so tired decided to wait until
morning and wire."

VIA MACKAY RADIO— VIEN-
NA— FEB. 28. ARRIVING STEAM-
SHIP AMERICA ABOUT MARCH
13.

The following article appeared in
the New York Herald Tribune of
February 28, 1957:

U. S. ENVOY QUITS HUNGARY
WITH FINAL SNUB TO REDS

Budapest, Feb. 27. American Min-
ister Edward T. Wailes delivered a
final snub to Hungary CommunLst
Government today and, bowing to
Red pressure, headed home.

After seventeen weeks in Budapest,
he quietly quit the country without
ever presenting his credentials to the
Red regime of Premier Janos Kadar,
which could have regarded the presen-
tation as American recognition.

Mr. Wailes, a former Assistant Sec-
retary of State, did not even notify the
Red hierarchy in advance that he was
leaving. It was not until seven hours
after he and his wife headed for Vien-
na in a car with two Legation officers
that the American Legation's second
secretary, Christopher Squires, notified
the Foreign Ministry ot his departure.

The State Department showed its
backing of the one-man boycott in a
statement recalling that Mr. Wailes
arrived in Budapest November 2 un-
der orders to present his credentials
promptly to the Imre Nagy govern-
ment, a broad coalition established in
the October revolt.

"Before Mr. Wailes was able to
present his credentials, however, the
Soviet Union on November 4 inter-
vened in force in Hungary," the state-
ment said. "In this situation Minister
Wailes, acting under instructions from
the Department, refrained from pre-
.senting his credentials. There have
been no subsequent developments in
Hungary warranting the presentation."

Soviet tanks on patrol in front of the American Legation, Budapest,
between November 10 and December 10. 19S6.

A daily scene

m \\

Alumnae Attend Stimulating Sessions

Board Voted to Change Policy on Alumnae News
All Alumnae Asked to Express Opinion

"TT'S always fair weather when good
X friends get together." Llnfortu-
nately, this was not true for the Alum-
nae Association's Executive Board
meetings in February. But despite fogs,
rains, mud puddles, and transportation
difficulties, sixteen alumnae came
through for two delightful and busy
days of meetings held on February 6th
and 7th.

Those of us who arrived a day early
were given the added treat of a dem-
onstration by the visiting V. M. I.
fencing team. Fortified by the knowl-
edge of a new method of tackling any
problem, we descended on Dew's Eu-
genia Burnett Room Wednesday for a
day's session at once rewarding and
stimulating. Since October, the activi-
ties of the clubs in the nine regions
have been varied and vital, ranging
from the traditional Christmas-time
Sweet Briar Day luncheons and teas
to New York's festixe Theater Benefit
which featured Happy Hunting and
netted $3,'>00.

Following the Board's October deci-
sion, the efforts of the majority of
regional clubs have been directed to-
wards the Rollins Fund which, as
of our February meeting, stood at
$59,886.86 — not quite $41,000 away
from the proposed goal of $100,000.
Of this amount, we were (and are!)
pleased that $7,040.15 has been raised
by the Alumnae Clubs.

Through an awareness that many
capable alumnae decline possible
membership on the Executive Board
because of their present distance from
the College, consideration is being
given to the possibility of expense-
paid transportation for members of
the Executive Board. At present a
study of similar procedure in other
colleges and universities and the esti-
mated cost of transportation is under-
way.

Proceeding from "the How" to "the
Whom," the indu.strious Nominating
Committee presented us with a slate
ot potential alumnae members of the

Board of Overseers, of which one was
to be selected to replace Alma Rot-
nem, who has served so capably. Our
thanks to those Alumnae Clubs who
sent in many fine suggestions.

Progressing further from "the
Whom" to "the Wherewithal," the
Ways and Means Committee reported
that the sale of objects purchased
through the Alumnae Office (trays,
china, glasses, etc.) lags behind last
year's sales. The magazine project has
been most profitable, however, as well
as the first Christmas sale of fruit
cakes which netted S93.43 for the
Alumnae Association. We were re-
minded that the magazine project con-
tinues throughout the year. Special
rates offered by publishing companies
can be handled if the special subscrip-
tion blank is sent to the Alumnae
Office.

Mrs. Pannell s[X)ke to us about the
optimum size of the college. Due to
the increasing pressure of applications
many colleges are examining their fa-
cilities and curricula to determine the
largest group which the college can
accomodate without losing the quali-
ties which are unique and distinctive
to the institution. The Board of Over-
seers is setting up a committee to make
this study and would like to have an
alumna in this group.

FOLLOWING reports of the meet-
ing of the Board of Overseers and
of Joint Council, we adjourned an
enjoyable session to move to Gladys
Horton's equally enjoyable party at
Garden Cottage, thence on to a late,
leisurely, and very lovely dinner in the
Refectory. The high point ot our two-
day sojourn came that evening when
Martha Lou Stohlman's The Slory of
Sweet Briar College became a reality,
held in our hands for the first time.
Students, faculty, and alumnae had
the opportunity of meeting the author
and expressing their appreciation for
her first-rate job at an autographing
party in Dew's Emily Bowen Room.

Shedding our borrowed rain ap-
parel, the Board began its Thursday
morning meeting in the Browsing
Room of the Library with a discussion
of the proposed portrait of Mrs. Pan-
nell and the appointment of a com-
mittee to investigate possible artists.
It was also decided that, as of next
fall, all issues of The Alumnae
Nevcs be sent to all alumnae for a two
years' trial. The experience of other
colleges has been that contributions to
the Alumnae Fund increase if all
alumnae receive all issues of alumnae
publications. This is what we hope
will happen. It was decided, too, that
as of this issue a resume of the board's
activities be included in each publica-
tion ('Voici!) If any alumnae or clubs
have suggestions, the Executive Secre-
tary, Regional Chairmen or President
will be glad to receive them.
(

JOHN "Good News " Detmold's re-
port was encouraging. Since Octo-
ber the Development Fund's total
of $1,748,000 has been increased to
$1,89^,000. Mr. Detmold also
brought news of a recommendation by
the Board of Overseers: that the Alum-
nae, Parents, and Development Funds
be fused into one Sweet Briar Fund.
In this way, there will be no dupilica-
tion of appeals. Furthermore, alum-
nae will be able to designate their con-
tributions to their special mterest at
the same time these contributions are
being credited to the Alumnae Fund.
The Alumnae Fund will continue to
solicit funds for a special project each
year. The Board approved this recom-
mendation and it feels that this meth-
od will gi\e a better picture of the
many ways in which the alumnae sup-
port the college. We learned through
Mr. Detmold of two new professor-
ships which will release now-allocated
funds for general faculty salaries: the
Rockefeller - Guion Professorship of
Chemistry and the Betsey Cushing-
John Hay Whitney Professorship of
Physics.

Al/inuhw News

Following Mrs. Panncll's luncheon,
we wound up our actixities with a
somewhat soggy yet no less interesting
campus tour under the expert leader-
ship of Peter Daniel and Lloyd Hoil-
man, who cojnbincd to make even a
drizzle delightful.

Many of you will be returning for
Reunion. It is not too soon to plan
for baby sitters and car pools. See you
at Sweet Briar the first of June.

Princi-: Trimmi-r, ''i6g
Second Vice President and
Reunion Chairman

Martha Lou Stohlman

Selected as Candidate

For Board of Overseers

THE Alumnae Council submits the
name of Martha Lou Lemmon
Stohlman, '34g, to the members of the
association as candidate for election to
the Board of Oxerseers of Sweet Briar
College. The choice and election of
alumnae candidates for the Board of
Overseers are provided for in the by-
laws of the Sweet Briar Alumnae As-
sociation. The council considered care-
fully the names of eligible alumnae
which had been submitted by indi-
viduals and by the clubs and selected
Martha Lou Lenimon Stohlman as a
person who by her hard work lor
Sweet Briar and her unflagging inter-
est in the welfare of the college has
shown that she would be a valuable
addition to the board.

Other names may be added to the
ballot if sent to the executive secretary
accompanied by fifteen signatures of
members ot the association and the
written consent of the nominees with-
in two weeks after the slate is pun-
lished. Ballots will be mailed to all
active members of the association, and
the candidate's name will then be sub-
mitted to the Board of Overseers as
the nominee from the association.

Martha Lou LeinniDH Stohlman, as
the author of our beautifully written
and enthusiastically received history,
"The Story of Sweet Briar College,"
is well-known to all of us. She la-
bored long and intensively on the re-
search and writing of the history.

Active in student affairs, she was
elected a member of Tau Phi, and

was business manager of the Sweet
Briar News. After her graduation
from Sweet Briar she went to Cor-
nell where she was awarded her M.A.
and Ph.D. in psychology. From 1937
to 1944 she taught psychology at
Colorado College and then in 1945
she went to Rome as a member of
the U.S. Foreign Service. There she
met Frederick Stohlman, a professor
of art and archaeology at Princeton
University, and they were married
in 1946. They now have two
daughters, Julie, 10, and Suzy, 7.

She was one of the first alumnae
elected to membership in the Sweet
Briar Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.

Martha Lou Lemmon Stohlman has
been active in the League of Women
Voters for some time and has served
on their board of directors; she has
been a Gray Lady and she has taught
Sunday School classes for many years.
She has had numerous articles and
book reviews published in the "Amer-

ican Journal of Psychology" and else-
where, including an article in the Jun-
ior Red Cross Magazine on Lite in the
Foreign Service.

She served her class as fund agent
from 1950 to 1952 and at the same
time was Regional Chairman for Re-
gion I and chairman of the Program
Planning Committee. From 1952 to
1954 she was the Sweet Briar Alum-
nae Fund Chairman. After that, she
spent almost a year and a half (and
postponed a trip to Europe) in re-
search and writing for "The Story of
Sweet Briar College." And always,
whenever she was engaged in any ac-
tivity for the college, she gave it her
whole attention and whole-hearted
effort.

The Executive Board of the Alum-
nae Association feel that Martha Lou
Lemmon Stohlman could be counted
on to devote her considerable ability
and imagination to the benefit of the
college.

REUNION '57

The 2's and the 7's

All classes ending in "2" or "7"
and the class of 1956 will celebrate
reunion in June. Prince Trimmer,
'56g, reunion chairman, announces the
following tentati\e program:

SUNDAY, JUNE 2

9:00]

to \ Registration, Reid Parlor
4:30j
10:00 Baccalaureate Ser\ice — The

Reverend Harold C. Phillips,
The First Baptist Church,
Cleveland, Ohio
4:30 Step-singing
5:30 Vespers in the dell
6:15 Class picnics and election of
class officers
10:00 Lantern night

MONDAY, JUNE 3

10:00 Commencement exercises —
speaker, Mr. De\ereaux
Josephs

1 :00

3:00]

Alumnae luncheon and annual
meeting of the Alumnae As-
sociation of Sweet Briar Col-
lege

to \ Open house in faculty homes

=i:00j
7:00

Alumnae banquet — honor
guests, class of 1932 — special
entertainment planned by class
of 1930

TUESDAY, JUNE 4
9:30]

to \ Alumnae College
11: 30 J

12:15 Luncheon — Mrs. Pannell —
Sweet Briar Gardens

The reservation folders for Com-
mencement and the alumnae program
will be mailed in April. Reunion
classes will be hearing from their
chairmen soon. Grammer and Reid
dormitories will house the alumnae.
Start making plans now to come to
Sweet Briar June 2 i !

Sprinc 1957

Development Program
Moves Ahead

by John DmMOLD

THE FOUR-VHAR izFFOKT to comiiMnoratc Sweet Briar's Golden Anniversary
by strengthening the college for its second half-century ended December 31,
1956. A total of $1,910,000 in gifts and pledges for new buildings and endow-
ment represents the fiftieth anniversary present to the college from its alumnae.
Board members, faculty and staff, students, parents, foundations, corporations, and
other friends. Gifts for other purposes, totalling nearly $100,000, bring the total
amount given to the college to more than two million dollars.

Although the $2,500,000 goal was not reached, and additional funds are
required to complete the Half-Century campaign's major objectives — a new
dormitory, science building, and auditorium-fine arts center, and $1,250,000
in new endowment — much bcis been accomplished:

The beautiful new William Bland of $22,571, establishing an endowed
Dew Dormitory was ready last Sep- scholarship in memory of the late Miss

tembcr for its first eighty students.
More than $525,000 is in hand ear-
marked for the auditorium (including
$100,764 raised for this building in
1941, which is not counted in the De-
\elopment totals). More than $70,000
has been given or pledged to the
science building. Faculty salaries were
raised twice in 1955-56, and endow-
ment designated for faculty salaries
has been increased by $615,000 in
gifts and pledges — half of this sum
coming from the Ford Foundation.

New Endowed Professorships

Where Sweet Briar formerly had
but one endowed professorship, the
Carter Glass Chair of Government, it
now has three and is well on its way
toward a fourth: Gifts made in 1955
in honor of Dr. Connie M. Guion,
chairman of the Board's Development
Committee, by Laurance, Nelson,
David, and Winthrop Rockefeller and
their sister, Mrs. Jean Mauze, and by
Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney,
have been designated for "The Rocke-
feller-Guion Professorship of Chem-
istry," and the "Betsey Gushing and
John Hay Whitney Professorship of
Physics." A total of $61,493.00 has
already been given or pledged for the
Wallace Rollins Professorship of Re-
ligion, for which the Kresge Founda-
tion has offered $50,000, provided an
additional $100,000 can be raised for
this purpose before next December 1.

More than $125,000 has been added
to the college's endowment for scholar-
ships — which will be needed more
than ever when the new $2,200 over-
all fee goes into effect next fall. A gift

Judith Bland Dew, was received m
December from Mrs. A. I. duPont of
Wilmington, Del., Miss Bland Dew's
cousin, who has long supported the
college's scholarship program and was
an early contributor to 'William Bland
Dew Dormitory. Miss Dew lov^-d
Sweet Briar and \isited it frequently
during the many years her brother
served as the college's first Treasurer.
In addition to new endowment for
faculty salaries and scholarships, nearly
$50,000 has been added to the college's
unrestricted endowment. And undes-
ignated gifts and pledges amounting
to more than $450,000 still remain to
be allocated by the Board.

Roundups Help Rollins Fund

That over $100,000 was added to
the Development total in the final
stage of the campaign was due largely
to the willingness of many alumnae
to undertake "roundup" events and
solicitation in their areas. Led by the
Lynchburg-Amherst County Develop-
ment Committee, which push;-d its
total for the campaign to more than
$176,000, the following areas (listed
chronologically according to their meet-
ings — at most of which the new De-
\elopment film was shown) went to
work to bring us closer to our goal:
Cincinnati, Richmond, Washington,
Cleveland, Rochester, Chicago, Phila-
delphia, Northern New Jersey, New
York City, Norfolk, Westchester,
Roanoke, Atlanta, and Pittsburgh. In
other areas as far afield as San Fran-
cisco and Los Angeles, alumnae Devel-
opment thairmen joined in the roundup
.solicitation without scheduling a party.

The hard work and generosity of
all these alumnae arc also responsible
in large measure for the $61,493
raised to date for the Rollins Profes-
sorship Fund — since this special proj-
ect was stressed in all of the roundup
work. To cite but one example, all of
Northern New Jersey's roundup gifts,
totalling $2,300, went to the Rollins
Fund (although only the club's gift is
identified below). After Lynchburg,
the largest roundup returns came from
New York, Washington, Richmond.

THE ROLLINS FUND

(As of March 12, 1957)

Alumnae $18,776

Faculty, Staff, students 6,485

Board of Overseers 13,433

(not counting alumnae members)

Parents 2,676

Friends 4,307

Anonymous 4

Class of 1931 1,565

Class of 1913 5,000

Sweet Briar Alumnae Clubs

Pittsburgh 300

Richmond 300

Wilmington 100

Charlotte 85

Cincinnati 350

Rochester 500

Washington 2,000

Lynchburg 300

Central Ohio (Columbus) ... 75

New York 1,000

Roanoke 225

Minneapolis 200

San Francisco 30

Charleston, W. Va 175

Atlanta 1,000

Chattanooga 350

Northern New Jersey 100

Boston 300

Memorials:

Harriet Shaw McCurdy 352

Emma Rollins Tighe 60

Calvert deColigny 10

Virginia Theological Seminary

• Alumni and Faculty 1,434

Total 161,493

Commenting on the Rollins Fund.
Gladys W'esler Horton, '30g, President
of the Alumnae Association, writes:

"These results have been achieved
through the cooperation and hard work
of many alumnae, clubs, members of
the faculty and staff, and other friends
of Sweet Briar. The Executive Board
of the Sweet Briar Alumnae Associ-
ation wishes to extend its grateful
apipreciation to all who have given so
generously of their time and resources.
This most encouraging total has been
rai,sed without detracting from the
Alumnae Fund, which is ahead of last
year at this time.

"With the continued cooperation
of Sweet Briar's family and friends.

AhiiiDiae Newj

wc will complete the Rollins Fund
before the December 1, deadline!"

Sweet Briar Fund Established

All told, this record ot i;enerous
support is a remarkable one. But de-
spite the very real achievements ot the
Half-Century campaign, much remains
to be done, now and in the future,
without the deadline and specific goal
associated with a campaign.

To complete the objectives of the
Half-Cxntury campaign, and to pro\ ide
Sweet Briar with a long-range program
of annual giving, geared to the future
needs of the college, the Board of
Overseers announced in February the
establishment of the Sweet Briar Fund,
combining the Alumnae Fund, the
Parents Fund, and the Development
Program.

Explaining the new Sweet Briar
Fund in her last report to the Board,
Dr. Guion said: "All gifts to the col-
lege will help to swell this new fund,
but they will automatically be credited
to the Alumnae Fund if given by an
alumna, to the Parents Fund if given
by a parent, or to the Development
Program. We hope thus to avoid a
duplication of appeals and to give
credit where it is due. For example,
in 195^-56 Sweet Briar alumnae gave
more than 5100,000 to the Develop-
ment Program but this amount was not
added to the 526,767 in unrestricted
gifts to our Alumnae Fund for that
year. Under the new system, all alum-
nae gifts will be credited to the Alum-
nae Fund."

Meeting on campus early in Feb-
ruary, the Executive Board of the
Alumnae Association voted unani-
mously in favor of the new Sweet
Briar Fund. Although the Alumnae
Fund will continue to appeal tor un-
designated gifts, and the Alumnae
Council will still decide how these
gifts should be used, it will now be
possible for an alumna to designate
her gift for a special project, such as
the auditorium or taculty salary endow-
ment, and still have it credited to her
class in the Alumnae I'und.

Development Council Announced

To assist the olficers of the college
in seeking contributions to the new
Sweet Briar Fund, the Board of Over-
seers has also created a new Develop-
ment Council, composed of Board
members, faculty and staff, alumnae,
students, and other friends of the col-
lege. Buford Scott of Richmond, a

member of the Board, heads this new
(Council. Serving with him are the fol-
lowing Board members: Dr. Guion;
Lawson W. Turner of Lynchburg,
vice-chairman ot the Board's Develop-
ment Committee; Katherinc Blniail
Andersen, '26g, of Bayport, Minn.;
Thomas C. Boushall of Richmond,
President of the Board; Sara Sh<iUen-
herger Brown, '52g, of Harrods Creek,
Ky.; Rebecca Yn/mg Frazer, '.^5g, of
Atlanta, Ga.; and Miss Meta Glass of
Charlottesville, president emeritus of
the college.

Also Nan Powell Hodges, 'lOg, of
Williamsburg, Va.; Charles H. Murchi-
son of Washington, D. C; President
Anne Pannell; Alma M.irl'ni Rotnem,
"i6g, of Princeton, N. J.; Mrs. Her-
bert Warner of Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Gor-
ham B. Walker, Jr., of Lynchburg;
and the Rt. Rev. Richard S. Watson,
Bishop of Utah.

Faculty and staff members of the
Council include Dean Mary J. Pearl,
Professors Marion Benedict Rollins
and G. Noble Gilpin; Martha von
Briesen, 31g, Director of Public Re-
lations; John H. Detmold, Director
of Development; Helen McMahon,
'23g, Manager of the Book Shop; and
Elizabeth Bond Wood, '34g, Executive
Secretary of the Alumnae Association.

Alumnae members are Nancy DouJ
Burton, '46g, chairman of the Alumnae
Fund; Mary Huntington Harrison,
'30g, of Cincinnati, O., a former board
member; Gladys Wester Horton, '30g,
of Maplewood, N. J., president of the
Alumnae Association; and Edith Dm-

Buford Scott

re! Marshall, '21g, of Cincinnati, O.,
chairman of the national alumnae de-
velopment committee.

Students on the Council are Seniors
Dagmar Halmagyi of Richmond, presi-
dent of Student Government; Nannette
McBurney of Bronxville, N. Y., editor
of The Sweel Briar News; and Lee
Haskell of Salem, Mass., chairman of
the Student Development Committee.

Parents on the Council are Victor
D. Broman ot New York, chairman o(
the Foundations Committee during the
Half -Century campaign; Lenoir Cham-
bers of Norfolk, chairman of the
Parents Advisory Board; Hugh K.
Duffield of Philadelphia, Pa., past-
chairman of the Parents Advisory
Board; and Alexander Donnan of
Roanoke, chairman of the Parents
Fund.

Lynchburg friends of the college
who are serving on the Council are
John D. Capron, James R. Caskie, and
James R. Gilliam, Jr.

Committees at Work

The Development Council's work
will be carried on through several
committees. Mr. Scott is chairman of
the Executive Committee, which also
includes Mr. Detmold and the follow-
ing committee chairmen: Miss Glass,
Committee on Education; Mrs. Brown,
Committee on Corporations; Mrs. An-
dersen and Mr. Dutfield, co-chairmen
of the Committee on Foundations; Mr.
Walker, Bequests and Annuities Com-
mittee; Mrs. Frazer, Special Gifts Com-
mittee; Mr. Gilpin, Campus Commit-
tee; Miss von Briesen, Public Relations
Committee; Miss McMahon, Ancillary
Committee.

Several of these committees have
already been at work. Mrs. Brown has
prepared a list of nearly 100 national
corporations, divided into categories,
and she has personally called on a
number of them already, some of them
early in December and many more in
the course of a month-long business
trip with her husband. Mrs. Brown's
tirst request was made to the directors
of the Brown-Forman Distillers Cor-
poration, and it resulted in a grant of
510,000 for the science building — the
first that corporation had made outside
Kentucky. Another corporation sent an
anonymous 52,000 contribution for
the science building, following Mrs.
Brown's call. Others have indicated
that they hope for favorable action on
applications submitted by Mrs. Brown
and other members of her committee.

Spring 1957

Degree Awarded to
Dr. Connie Guion

On rehr/idiy 19. 79^7. o//r be-
loved Dr. Connie Guion was
awarded the honorary degree of
Doctor of Science by Queens Col-
lege in New York. In presenting
her to President W^alker, Dean
Cordon Street made the follow-
ing statement:

MR. PRESIDENT, I have the hon-
or of presenting to you a Char-
lotte woman who has become one of
the most eminent physicians of our
nation.

She was born on a plantation near
Lincolnton, North Carolina. Inspired
in girlhood by a love of science, she
worked her way through Wellesley
College and won her Bachelor of Arts
degree there. At Cornell University
she earned the degre;s Master of Arts
and Doctor of Medicine. In recent
years the honorary degree Doctor of
Science has been bestowed upon her
by her alma mater, Wellesley College,
and by the Woman's Medical College
of Pennsylvania.

Her long career of service includes
many years of teaching: at Vassar Col-
lege as instructor of chemistry, at Sweet
Briar College as professor and head
of the department of chemistry, and at
the Cornell University Medical Col-
lege as professor of clinical medicine.

As a physician she has specialized in
internal medicine. An unusually dis-
tinguished career won her the praise
of Neifsiveek Magazine as having at-
tained "a medical eminence probably
unparalleled by any other woman doc-
tor." After her internship at Bellevue
Hospital she began a private practice
in New York City, which she has con-
tinued to the present time. She has
been a member of the staff of a num-
ber of hospitals and recently has served
as chief of staff of the general medical
clinic at New York Hospital, directing
the care of over 12,000 patients per
year.

The New York Infirmary of Wom-
en and Children awarded to her, in
1949, the Elizabeth Blackwell Cita-
tion. In 1951 the Cornell Alumni

Association chose her as the first
woman to receive its Award of Merit
and cited her as one whose "life and
work ha\e brought honor and acclaim
to her medical college."

As a teacher of medical science and
as a distinguished practicing physician,
she has given wise counsel and a
challenging example to many young
women preparing for the medical
profession. Her warm humanity, her
scientific competence, and her serene
dignity have contributed much to the
high esteem in which many women are
now held in the medical world.

It is my pleasure, Mr. President, to
represent the faculty of Queens Col-
lege in presenting to you CONNIE
MYERS GUION for the honorary
degree of DOCTOR OF SCIENCE.

President Walker replied as fol-
lows:

CONNIE MYERS GUION: Dis-
tinguished scholar in the fields of
chemistry and medicine, teacher,
research worker, healer of the sick,
friend and counselor of thousands,
diligent worker for the good of your
city and nation, it is my pleasure on
the recommendation of the faculty of
Queens College and by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Board of
Trustees, to confer upon you the hon-
orary degree DOCTOR OF SCIENCE
with all the rights and privileges per-
taining to that degree.

Alice Barnes, '57, playing at the first
Benefit Recital in Manson

Plans Begun For
Memorial Chapel

The Sweet Briar Memorial Chapel
Committee, headed by Gertrude Dally
Massie, '22g, of Rye, New York, has
been active. In conjunction with the
Music Department, it is sponsoring a
series of Sunday recitals this spring
in Manson as benefits for the Me-
morial Chapel Fund. Aided by
Vice - Chairmen Florence Freeman
Fowler, '19g, of Bronxville, N. Y.,
and Margaret Cramer Crane, '27g, of
Stamford, Conn., Mrs. Massie sent a
letter this month to all former mem-
bers of the Choir, inviting them to
attend these benefit recitals, outlining
the committee's plans, and urging
their support in seeking funds for a
Memorial Chapel. Mrs. Massie was
on hand for the first recital, March
17, and described her committee's
plans to the audience:

"There will be no high pressure
solicitation of anyone by anyone. We
want to think of our chapel as a Me-
morial Chapel, built and furnished by
gifts, small as well as large, offered
freely by alumnae, faculty and staff,
students, members of the Board of
Overseers, and other friends of the
college in memory of their families,
relatives, teachers and friends. We
want e\'ery part of the chapel to be
a memorial. Each gift will be record-
ed in a Memorial Book, and by a
memorial inscription in the chapel.

"But before we can think of the
furnishings there must be many gifts
for the foundations of the building,
as well as for the bricks and mortar.
The raising of these necessary funds
could be quite a simple matter if
(and it is a very important word)
every single one of us who belongs
to Sweet Briar and who believes in
Sweet Briar support the project.

"Apart from your support in the
form of memorial gifts, however, here
are three requests that I wish to make;

1. Will you think about the chapel
daily?

2. Will you talk about the chapel
whenever and wherever you can .■*

3. Above all, will you pray for the
chapel?"

Two other recitals in this series
will be given by music majors, Jane
Fitzgerald and Carolyn Westfall. A
final concert by faculty and students,
will be heard on May 16.

Alumnae News

Why Can't You Grow Wheat ?

h\ F.vuRAKi) Mi:adi-:

The fo/lou/iig teller was received by Evelyn W^illidnis Tiiriih/ill, pdsl
preiideiil of ihe Sweet Briar Alininiae Club of Churlollesville, Vd.
Mr. Meade, formerly associaled wilh Young ami Ruhiiai// Adverlisiiig
Agency in New York Cily, several years ago moved lo Charlollewille,
where he now lectures al the University of Virgin/, i.

DccLinlxr 26, 1956
(;ii.irlottes\ille, Virtjinia
DiAK l-.vi::

Virginia and I lia\e bi-en Intend-
ing to write you about Betty's reaction
to Sweet Briar, which of course de-
termines our own reaction. Since you
were kind enough to say a good word
for her last fall we are happy to report
to you that we love it.

My own reactions are probably those
of a typical father who remembers the
place from his University days and is
baffled to find himself old enough to
have a daughter there. I knew I was
hooked from the minute we turned off
the highway and w,.-re welcomed by a
cardboard bear. There we were in the
loaded station wagon (Betty took
everything to college but the boxwood
bushes), all three of us feeling like
babes in the woods. In no time at all
Betty's big sister had welcomed us
with a smile that made me stop caring
where the second semester tuition was
coming from.

A cordial first impression is one
thing. Presumably any girls' college
can put its best foot forward when th;
parents are around. The real test of
course is the first semester after work
is under way. It is not always easy to
learn how one's daughter is getting
along schola.stically when all her let-
ters home are filled with requests for
stamps, combs, stationery, cookies, and
aluminum bobbypins. Nor is there too
much to be learned from football
weekends. In spite of great expecta-
tions on our part, there was little com-
munication between Betty and our-
selves on her visits this fall. She
whizzed through the house leaving
vapor trails, an occasional pair of red
shoes, and a scrawled note chat she
would be at the Deke Hous:-. On her
three "overnights " she brought home
other girls equally jet-propelled and
night blooming — each a perfect little
lady with charming manners and a
slight head cold.

■^'et the watchful parental eye can

detect changes — for the better. An
increased poise, an increased awareness
of painting, music, and current e\ents.
These changes reveal themselves in the
late morning coffee sessions, post-
scripts of letters, and on trips along
the Lynchburg Road when the family
Chev\y does shuttle service.

Parents' Day added further enlight-
enment. We attended classes, met
teachers, tried to look neat and not
ask questions that would blight Betty's
future career at Sweet Briar. 'We were
greeted by the President who was as
far from a cardboard bear as you'd
want to meet, but continued the little
bear's initial gesture of welcome in
her own gracious manner.

I suppose this is as good a place as
any to make a confession about my
own activities on Parents' Day. I
didn't run the full course. I folded
about mid-afternoon, and in so doing,
established what I certainly hope is a
first-and-last for Grammer Dormitory.
I barricaded Betty's door (her room-
mate being away) and took a nap, fit-
fully broken by dreams of being ar-
rested and thrown in a perfumed brig.

Aside from Parents' Day we ha\e
forced ourselves to stay away, realizing
that Betty would be at a disadvantage
in her development of true college in-
dependence if her parents turned up
every five minutes with a fruit cake
and a pan of home cooked biscuits.
In this connection, there seems less
need for Care Packages at Sweet Briar
than most other colleges. Betty likes
the food and has gained eight pounds.

Naturally a candid appraisal of a
college cannot be all sweetness and
light. I respectfully submit a com-
plaint. What makes somebody over
there think my daughter can play la-
crosse! This child can't play Old
Maids without spraining her wrist I
Do they want to kill my stumblefoot
offspring? And would they like to
know why she didn't take dancing
instead.-" Because the boy she is going
with at the University is on the la-

Everard Meade is confronted with hidden

costs by his daughter, Betty, on his visit

to Sweet Briar College

crosse team and she wants to talk to
him in his own language. Could you
use your influence to get her switched
to the Freshman knitting squad?

In typical male fashion I have run
on about a father's reaction. What
about the new Sweet Briar girl and
her mother? (A Saint Anne's - Mary
Baldwin grad of infinite charm and a
will ot solid brass) Virginia is chief
of the Home Supply Corps, and in this
role she is in receipt of a steady stream
of requests for the bobbypins men-
tioned — plus a list of other items puz-
zling to the male. A continuous con-
test goes on between mother and child.
This game is called: \\"hy don't you
answer my questions? It is played
thus: Virginia writes, "How are you
getting on in French? Would you like
me to send over the French records?
I don't understand why you are the
only member of the Freshman botany
class who can't grow wheat. Why
can't you grow wheat? "

To which Betty replies: "What hap-
pened to the shoes I asked you to have
half -soled?"

The high point of the fall season
may not properly belong in a letter of
appreciation on Sweet Briar. But, as
an alumna, you might find it strikes
a nostalgic note. I refer to the ancient
festival of Thanksgiving — the historic
time when all the Indians and the Pil-
grims gathered in the lobby of the
Biltmore Hotel and gave thanks for
their preser\ation. Following this cus-
tom, as you may recall, the college
boys and girls of today meet in the

Sprinci 1957

very same plate. Betty was no excep-
tion. Nor, presumably, were the tribu-
lations that attended her pilgrimage.
First she bought a railroad ticket out
of the tattered remains of her allow-
ance. Next she lost it. Next she
called long distance for help. Her
mother, who is not a woman to take
a lost ticket lying down, sprang to the
phone (we were in New York at the
time) and accomplished the miracle
of getting somebody to promise a
replacement. I met the train on which
Betty and h^-r Sweet Briar friends ar-
rived. Please don't think this was the
train they were expected on. They
missed that train, and, as is most nat-
ural, waited a couple of hours in the
rain. When they did come, it was
thre; in the morning. Betty and I
arrived in the lobby of the Roosevelt
Hotel (the Biltmore having reached
its limit of crinoline) to find the palace
packed with happy little monsters
screaming greetings, and college cheers
in a healthy fashion. Betty joined the
throng and Dad withdrew to meditate
elsewhere on the glories of being a
Sweet Briar father.

The three days that followed were
a blast, whatever that means. We re-
ceived a post card from Eddie Con-
don's, which seems to be a downtown
branch of the Metropolitan Opiera
dedicated to the study of American
jazz. Other cultural high spots re-
ported on were Lindy's restaurant and
the Stork Club. Although the total
count may not be in, the present list
of items lost includes a pair of gloves,
a scarf, and a Princeton boy with
laryngitis.

Now the first session is over and
Betty is home for the holidays. The
phone hasn't been on its hook for
days. As a family we are cut off from
the outside world, except for an occa-
sional homing pigeon that gets
through. Red shoes and strapless bras
litter her room. Virginia's bobbypins
have vanished like the summer locusts.
We eat our meals with victrola accom-
paniment, adjusting our intake of food
to Beethoven and Satchmo — with an
occasional Frenchwoman wailing the
blues in the background. We are
quizzed about the Suez situation, about
medieval history, plant life and
Shakespeare. It's ghastly and we
love it.

Our child is a long-legged left-
handed girl whom we still look upon

as the pudgy baby who used to hide
her pablum in her cheeks. It seems to
be her fate and ours for her to become
a grown woman in spite of anything
we can do. Suffice it to say that we
can't conceive of a better college for
this change to take place than Sweet
Briar. We think it's great!

Cordially,

EvERARD W. Meade
Mrs. Knox Turiibull
Shadwell, Virginia

DECORATOR

(Continued from pdge 3)
dine there comfortably, hence there
are two walnut tables forming a sepa-
rated T. On the longest wall two
walnut sideboards are made more im-
pressive by a design of suspended
shelves on which pleasant plates,
bowls, and glass from the cellar of
Sweet Briar House are arranged.

During the last mad rush of instal-
lation and final paint touching up,
when tempers are tried to the breaking
point, one expects criticism to be
sharply expressed by at least half the
people involved. One is steeled
against the shocked reaction to any
new solution of a familiar problem.
As we put William Bland Dew Hall
together last September, I did not hear
one word of protest. It may mean only
that manners are bc-tter at Sweet Briar
than elsewhere, but I like to think that
the people who live in it, and who
look at it every day, like it as well as
I do.

FOAM RUBBER

(onl'iniied fro/// page ^ )
ated. It was a matter of days, then
hours, until the first students arrived.
Mrs. Hatfijld and Miss Voelcker came
down, joining Mr, Hutchins, Mr.
Berry, and most of the members of
the decorating committee to spend the
last day at hard manual labor. All of
Ihe college's carpenters and electri-
cians were assembling, testing, con-
necting, rewiring. Mr. Hoilman was
a walking tool-chest, and expert with
them all. Mr. Daniel seemingly spent
his day on his hands and knees screw-
ing legs to furniture or assembling re-
calcitrant pieces. In the parlor the
painter was applying a last coat of
paint to the facing around the fire-
place and the stone mason was laying

the stone flooring while the rug was
being put down, the curtains hung
and the rest of the furniture arranged.
During all of this, anywhere, and at
any time of the day or night, Mrs.
Pannell could be found inspecting, en-
couraging workmen or consulting with
foremen or contractors.

Fifty members of the college's
Lynchburg - Amherst Development
Committee had been invited for din-
ner at Sweet Briar House and were to
be the first visitors to the new dormi-
tory on the evening before the first
students arrived. Ten minutes before
they arrived Mrs. Hatfield and the
Decorating Committee, damp, dirty
and exhausted, staggered out the front
door. Everything was in place, flowers
graced the table, soft lamp light
bathed the rooms. Curtain ! Lights !

ALL THAT GLITTERS

(ontjnued from page } )

Even nervous systems shattered by
the bells recover miraculously over a
cigarette in the lounge. The slip back
chairs and kitchenette provide the
superb blend of modernity and domes-
ticity. The acme of comfort may be
experienced in the attractively fur-
nished recreation room, named in
memory of Emily Bowen. This is a
spacious area which serves all members
of the community as a meeting place.
When you enter the Emily Bowen
Room, keep your powder dry and be
prepared for anything, from a quiet
game of bridge or a gay conversation
with beaux to a tea complete with sil-
ver service.

And if all your subterfuges are un-
availing, do not be distressed when
you are drafted into the kitchen detail,
for you will find this delightful kitch-
en unlike any you have ever seen, and
working in it will be a joy forever.

The possibility of being called
simultan;ously on two phones on the
same hall has revived many a deflated
ego. The vibrancy of the colors, the
freshness of the rooms and the beauty
of the well-designed furniture create
a setting which cannot be rivaled by
the more traditional pastels and creak-
ing equipment in some other resi-
dences. The ultimate feature of an
elevator, though not on the approved
list for students, lends an air of dis-
tinction.

Yes, life can be beautiful — if you
live in Dew Dormitory.

Ahanncie News

Student Assesses
Stolhtnan's ^Story*

by Jane Pincknky, '57

"QWEET BRIAR," said the presi-

dent of another college to Miss
Benedict, "What a name! I would as
soon have a diploma from Lily-of-the-
Valley College!" (p. 88) All of us
who have lived and studied in the red
brick buildings and visited the old
plantation house where Daisy Wil-
liams grew up know that Sweet Briar
is the only possible name for our col-
lege.

Other names that have been fami-
liar to fifty years of Sweet Briar stu-
dents convey little meaning to most
of us here now. We have lived in
Grammer, Reid, Manson, Randolph,
Gray and Carson Dormitories, at-
tended class in Fletcher, studied in the
Mary Helen Cochran Library and even
paid occasional visits to the Mary Har-
ley Intirmary. This fall we returned
to si-e the lovely new William Bland
Dew Dormitory. Most of us know
that Elijah Fletcher was Daisy Wil-
liams' grandfather, but the other
names mean simply buildings.

This morning I sat in the Browsing
Room of the Mary Helen Cochran
Library and read Martha Lou Lemmon
Stohlman's The Slory of Sweet Bihir
College. I looked up at the portrait
of Mary Helen Cochran, and suddenly
the name meant more than just the
library. Her son Mr. Fergus Reid
served for thirty-six years as a member
ot the board, giving much time and
money to the college. How lucky we
are that he chose to remember his
mother by giving us a library.

1 thought how appropriate it was
that the dormitory named for Mr.
Reid should be next to that named
for the member of the first board of
directors who had recruited Mr. Reid
for Sweet Briar, the Rev. Dr. Carl E.
Grammer.

Walking back to Gray I realized
that it recalls Mrs. Williams' rector,
the Rev. Mr. Arthur Gray of Ascen-
sion Church in Amherst. He was one
of the original trustees of Mrs. Wil-
liams' estate. I could picture him
meeting at St. Paul's Church in Lynch-
burg with the Rev. Mr. Theodore Car-
son, its rector, and with Bishop Alfred
MagiU Randolph of the diocese of
southern Virginia.

The buildings bearing their names
stand here today because these men
followed Indiana Fletcher Williams'
instruction to:

Procure the incorporation ... of
"Sweet Briar institute" ... It
shall be the general scope and
object of the school to impart to
its students such education in
sound learning, and such physi-
cal, moral and religious training
as shall, in the judgment of the
director, best fit them to be use-
ful members of society, (p. 39)
Waiting in Manson for chapel to
begin, I wondered if Mr. Nathaniel
Clayton Manson, who filled the va-
cancy on the board left when Mr.
Carson died in 1903, could learn the
name of every student today as he did
m the early days of the college.

Our new dormitory has so many
conveniences, including the pretty
lounge, the private dining room, two
kitchens and numerous student offices,
that the nam;- Dew seems perfectly
suited to it.

Hearing the whistle of the 1:19
train, I recalled the comment of Dr.
Mary Harley, "That's the only thing
that makes me know I'm not in Eden."
(p. 73) How different the infirmary
named for her is from her original
domain in Sweet Briar House when
she became the first college physician.
At convocations we often hear the

names of the first two presidents of
Sweet Briar, but our only associations
with the names are the honors they
carry. Reading how Mary Kendrick
Benedict assembled the first faculty,
enrolled their students and kept the
physical, academic and social life of
the college going for the first ten
years, I realized why the .scholarship
bearing her name is given to a student
showing a purpose for ser\ice.

The highest ranking member of
each class is named the Emilie Watts
McVea Scholar in honor of the second
president.

Other names in the story were
already familiar. Many of the faculty
mentioned are still here. Mrs. Mary
Ely Lyman introduced Miss Martha B.
Lucas this fall when she delivered the
Lyman Lecture. Miss Meta Glass
often comes down from Charlottes-
ville, and as we all know, Mrs. Pan-
nell still manages to do things like
eating with the student waitresses and
writing notes of congratulations to all
those on the Dean's List. Some day,
perhaps the new buildings will recall
these people to our alumnae daughters.
From the first. Sweet Briar has been
a close unit, and even now we know
most of our fellow-students by name.
What a kinship we who love Sweet
Briar can now feel with those who
have loved it in the past. "Sweet
Briar .^ What a beautiful name!"

Phtiin />> Minhi trin Bttiirn,
Mr. Carroll Henson delivers the first Iruckload of "The History of Sweet Briar College" to
the Alumnae Secretary as Mr. Peter Daniel, Treasurer and Assl. to the President, looks on.

Sprinc; 1957

Briar Patches

by Elizabeth Johnston. ''>9

_ ilGHrST elective office at Sweet
Briar goes to alumnae daughter. June
Berguido of Havertord, Pa., daughter
of Marion jayiie Berguido, '28g, was
recently elected president of the Stu-
dent Government Association for
19T7-58. Dorothy Woods of Char-
lottesville, Va., will serve as chairman
of the Judicial Board.

June, house president of Randolph
thi's year, was a member of the Judicial
Board her sophomore year. A member
of Tau Phi and Q. V., she has beeri
on the Dean's List several times and
has received Freshman and Junior
Honors.

Other alumnae daughters elected
to Student Government offices include
Winnie Leigh, Maude Winborne, S^,
senior member of the Judicial Board.
Claire Cannon, Cordelia Penn, ■34g,
senior house president; and Brownie
Lee, Rebekah Strode, ■34g, sophomore
house president. Mary Lane Bryan,
Ellen Newell, '26, is the new vice-
president of the Y.W.C.A.

was announced recently. Robert Col-
lege for men was the first American
college established overseas.

Mr. Massie is chief executive officer
and chairman of the board of the New
York Trust Company, and is well
known in both the insurance and bank-
ing worlds. He is a member of the
Board of Overseers of Sweet Briar
College, and is a trustee of Columbia
LIni\ersity

Gilbert and Sullivan's lolcinthe
was presented March 7, 8, and 9 by
Paint and Patches and the Choir. The
cast included members of the faculty
as well as students from Sweet Briar
and Lynchburg College. The audience
was highly appreciative of the humor-
ous characterizations, especially those
by Mr. John Detmold, Director of
De\elopment, who played the Lord
Chancellor, and Mr. Noble Gilpin and
Mr. Ben Reid, two of the nobles. Mr.
Gilpin is a member of the Music
Department and Mr. Reid of the
English Department. Nancy Godwin,
a senior from Petersburg, took the part
of lolanthe.

OWEET briar was privileged this
year in ha\ ing doubly good leadership
for its Annual Religious Conference
(formerly Religious Emphasis Week) :
Dr. and Mrs. Langdon B. Gilkey of
Vanderbilt Divinity School.

The theme for the conference,
which was held on February 17th
through I9th, was "Decision in Di-
lemma, " and Dr. Gilkey's three formal
addresses helped to give us a basis for
Christian decision in campus and per-
sonal life as well as in world affairs.
The informal discussions brought
forth many pressing problems and
Dr. Gilkey was so helpful and under-
standing in dealing with them that
everyone was loath to leave when the
time came.

Mrs. Gilkey (Dot Bottom, '49) also
conducted one discussion group in
^■hich .she prepared us for the deci-
sions we will have to make after grad-
uation and warned especially against
letting jobs, marriage, or hum-drum
daily duties distract us from building
on the sound liberal arts background
w; have received at Sweet Briar.

It was in all a very successful con-
ference as student participation proved,
and was enjoyable for everyone in
bringing the Gilkeys back to Sweet
Briar again. It serves as one more
proof that our alumnae show "good
taste and judgment" both in choosing
husbands and in devoloping their own
education.

Among tlu- nine seniors initiated
into Phi Beta Kappa on February 26
were two alumnae daughters: Jane
Best, daughter of Jane Lee, '23g, Fre-
mont, N. C, and Jane Pinckney,
daughter of Charlotte Kent, '31g,
Richmond. Also honored with elec-
tion to this society were Carter Don-
nan, Roanoke, Va., Elaine Kimball,
Lake Charles, La., Margaret Liebert,
Richmond, Va., Emma Matheson,
Alexandria, Va., Nannette McBurney,
Bronxville, N. Y., Carroll WeitZL-l,
Aiken, S. C, and Mary Anne Wilson,
C;hattanooga, Tenn. Dr. Lily Ross
Taylor, former Dean of the Graduate
School at Bryn Mawr, gave the Phi
Beta Kappa lecture on "Ad\'entures in
Scholarship. "

X HE election of Adrian M. Massie
as a member of the board of trustees
of Robert College of Istanbul, Turkey,

Dr. Langdon B. Gilkey and his wile. Dot Bottom Gilkey. 49g. talking with students in
the parlor at Dew Dormitory during the Annual Religious Conference.

Alinuniie Nctrt

CLASS NOTES

ACADEMY-SPECIALS

Secretjry: Marion Peele, 602 Fairfax Ave-
nue, Norfolk 7, Va.

In the absence of news items of our
group, I aril just sending you a word of
enthusiastic appreciation of Dr. Connie
Guion's tribute to Miss Benedict in the
little booklet so thoughtfully prepared and
sent out by the Alumnae Otficc; no doubt
you ha\c received it by this time. 'I'ou will
agree. I believe, that this account reads like
a fascinating stor)', but better than that, it
is true and it is one in which you had your
own experience with one of those "most
unforgettable characters" whom few are
privileged to know in a lifetime.

Dr. Connie has had countless awards and
honors for her amazing accomplishments in
her profession and in other fields. However,
for this warm and moving personal history
of Miss Benedict durini' those early years
of the establishment of the college, each of
us I'm sure would love to add another to
her honors.

We who find this so compelling a story
will have after reading it a deeper under-
standing of the day-to-day life of Miss Ben-
edict. She ardently and steadfastly carried
on the broad plans and work of the college
while at the same time with patience and
wisdom she included every sub-freshman,
academy-ite, and special in the fullness of
her interest and affection. Thanks are due
so many of you, too, for your warm and
often instant response to her and to the
scholarship that is a living tribute to her.

Alumnae like The HISTORY
Nan Powell Hodges. 'lOq, writes: "I am
thrilled over the book!"

Eugenia Griifin Burnett, 'lOg, our first
alumna on the Board of Directors has writ-
ten, "I can delay no longer in telling you
how really thrilled I am over the History of
Sweet Briar College. Eugenia, my daugh-
ter, used the word 'thrilled' too. . . . The
foreword is excellent, as is Julia's intro-
duction. And isn't the format lovely! I ex-
pected a fine book, but not such a truly
splendid one, , , , I very much like Martha
Lou's style of writing, , , , "

1913

Presiileni: Elizabeth Franke (Mrs. Kent
Balls), 304 Meridian Street, West Lafay-
ette, Ind,

Secretary: Mary Pinkerton (Mrs. James
Kerr), 536^A Carnarvon Drive, Norfolk 2,
Va,

Fund Agent: Mary Clark (Mrs. Clarence
Rogers), 205 Beverley Road, N.E.. Atlanta,
Ga,

A note from our president, Bessie Fi^inke
Balls, says she and her husband plan to go
back to California. They will take a trip to
Japan and other parts of the Orient. We

Acad, riiiiiiy Mdckall

Acad. Marie Ahrams Lawson,
June 13, 1956

1922 Clarita Nonis Blacker,
.spring, 1955

1928 Katherine Page, spring, 1956

1928 Clarissa Ellis, August, 1956

1936 Y\onne Dekker Boomsliter,
June 13, 1956,

1938 Marion Aldrlyn Zimmerman,
summer, 1956

hope she'll have time to send us an account
of her travels and we'll be looking forward
to meeting her at Sweet Briar when she
returns.

This leads to the subject of our next
reunion. It was my understanding, as well
as that of Sue Slaughter (please correct me
if I am wrong), that, on account of the
anniversary celebration of 1956, we would
not try for a regular class reunion again
until the fiftieth in 1963.

Sue Slaughter could not attend the Sweet
Briar luncheon at the Norfolk Yacht and
Country Club, December 28th, but I met
there other friends from Norfolk and Sweet
Briar, Louise Hooper Ewell, Frances Miir-
rell Rickards, Marjorie Couper Prince, and
Delia Pjge Cason.

A letter from Linda Wright says she has
heard from Dorothy Su:in Lent and Doro-
thy Peckirdl Cremer. Linda writes, "I
taught piano and appreciation of music at
home in Jersey City for several years after
finishing my music study in New York.
Then I was ordered to California for the
climate, and here I have been ever since,
except for visits to my family in the sum-
mers . . . My sister Ethel is living with me.
We have an adorable little house, only
three blocks from the ocean. L'ntil four
years ago, I had classes in music apprecia-
tion and taught piano in La Jolla. Then 1
gave up my studio. How I would love to
see Sweet Briar again ... I still have a
love for the college and the beautiful coun-
try in the foothills of the Blue Ridge."
Linda is again doing some teaching. I'll
repeat her address, in case some of you
missed it last time: 7118 La Jolla Boule-
vard, La Jolla, Calif.

1 am glad to hear from Rebecca ]\"hile
Faesch. She lives at 502 Essex Ave., Chevy
Chase 15, Md. The Alumnae Office has sent
me a recent address for Jean Staples. It is
c/o Mrs. R. O. Frost, R. F. D. Congora
Farms, Brockport, N. Y. My latest address
for Lucille MjnhJl Boethelt is 15 Hollen-
back Lane, Orlando, Fla.

Alumnae like The HISTORY
Elizabeth Franke Balls, '13. writes: "I
enjoyed it very much, , , , It is an excel-
lent presentation, , , . "

1916

Fund Agent: Antoinette Camp (Mrs,
James M. Hagood), 16 Legare St., Charles-
ton, S. C.

On leaving Sweet Briar in 16, not one
thought was given to a ioth Reunion, but
quickly ( ;■ ) it was upon us before all of
us could become grandmothers. Margaret
Bannister and Rachel Furbush Wood
planned it enthusiastically. Connie Rii\sell
Chamberlain and Louise Bennett Lord were
coming. Becky Sloiil Hoover would surely
be there and Ellen How/ton Christian could
hardly wait.

After flying through an electrical storm,
driving with Jane Henderson in pouring
rain, we were met by Ban and Rachel. The
others couldn't make it, alas — but the nos-
talgic charm of Sweet Briar was soon upon
us, and we reverted to those carefree days —
before families, budgets or income taxes —
and entered into the splendid program of
events given for Sweet Briar's 50th Anni-
versary, under the able, charming guidance
of Mrs. Pannell.

Bertha Pfister Wailes entertained us de-
lightfully at supper — in lieu of the usual
picnic; Flo Freem.in Fowler produced Slept
of Reunion, highlighting our never chang-
ing Dr. Guion; we revisited "all the old
familiar places, " admired the handsome
Sweet Briar tulips which lasted and lasted
after a journey from Rochester; had tea in
several attractive homes on Faculty Row;
swelled with pride at all the honor students
and the announcement of the scholarship
honoring Dr. Rollins; and talked endlessly.

Marion Peele summed it all up in her
letter: "Wasn't Sweet Briar beautiful? I
thought I could hardly bear its early morn-
ing freshness and the sun on the boxwood
that brings out that special Sweet Briar
sweetness. Isn't it typical of the place that
Helen McMahon would get up early Sun-
day morning to pick fresh wild strawberries
for Dr. Connie Guion's breakfast.' I could
almost sec Martha Darden putting rose-
leaves in Miss Benedict's bath when she
came to visit !"

I left after Mrs. Pannell's luncheon in
Boxwood Gardens, content that Sweet Briar
would go on and on for many more re-
unions, but I had to hurry to Virginia
Beach to see my grandchildren, whose
mother, Anne Coote Gilliam, was in the
class of '40 — then home to my grandson,
whose mother, Dcrrill M.nb.ini Hagood,
was in the class of 1955, and his maternal
grandmother, Marion T.iber Maybank, May
9ueen in '28, We're a real Sweet Briar
family, you see, and that's why I believe
in its future. How many grands have you,*
Antoinette Cami- Hagood, '16

Sprinc; 1957

1918

President: Cornelia Carroll (Mrs. K. N.
Gardner). Yorktown. Va.
Secretary: ESTHER TuRK (Mrs. H. H.
Hemmings), 230 W. 79th Street, New
York 24, N. Y.

Fund Ageni: Vivienne Barkalovc (Mrs.
Stanley K. Hornbeck), 2139 Wyoming
Ave.. N. >X'., Washington 8, D. C.

I did not get too many replies to my last
appeal for news, but what did come was
good. Even Mary Reed who reported a
badly sprained left wrist was congratulating
herself on having the right one available
to deal with the inevitable Christmas rush.
I was delighted to get a card from Iloe
Bowers Joel even if she did not include
any special news. How about more next
time — "line upon line, precept upon pre-
cept, here a little and there a little." Cor-
nelia C.irrol! Gardner reports that she is
well and busy. Elanette SulliU Marks cer-
tainly keeps moving. She writes. "I never had
any children, but the dear 'old people' of
my family have been my special charge. The
death of the last of them, a beloved aunt,
leaves me quite alone now. I spend my
summer in Michigan, fall in Chicago and
the rest of the year in Arizona, where I
paint like mad most of the time. Since my
paintings have really begun to sell, what
started as a hobby is turning into a career."
Elanette. however, will soon have a rival,
because Cilia Guggenhe'imer Nusbaum has
also begun an artistic career. She says she
always wanted to take art classes and finally
got around to doing it. Now she has pro-
duced several water colors and an oil paint-
ing. I am quite abashed but will cling to
the certainty that the world owes me a debt
of gratitude as long as I do not take up
art and music. Perhaps providence has ack-
nowledged the debt, for all my family are
thriving. The three elder boys are doin.g
very well in their work with desirable pro-
motions, etc.; t%vo grandchildren flourish
loudly. Anthony the fourth had the amaz-
ing luck to be ordered to England. He has
hoped for that ever since he went into the
Air Force Police, but got even more than
he hoped, as he is posted to an R.A.F. base
near Oxford, which is more interesting for
him than an American base. He will be
quite surrounded by members of my family,
most of whom he knows, and only about 50
miles from his sister, Pamela, who is hav-
ing the time of her life at Berkhamstead
School. It is strenuous, but that suits her.
Going over on the Briunnic. she practically
lived in the gym and the swimming pool.
She always appeared at meals very demure
in skirts, but the rest of the time it was
shorts and long bare legs. She is a fine ath-
lete and can sing. How did I ever acquire a
daughter like that. She lives with an Eng-
lish army family, just around the corner
from one of my cousins. She pointed out
that they could lean out of their windows
and communicate by smoke signal. Every-
body said she would be homesick, but she
never was and she had a riotous time going
to the theatre a lot, to say nothing of the
Twelfth Night Ball. What more could one
want at fifteen? The other boy is equally
happy at Cornell, where he has collected
his numerals for track. Owing to meets and
vacations, he appears and disappears like
the Cheshire Cat and I still seem to spend

a great deal of time cooking meals at
weirdly incompatible hours.

1919

Preside!!!. FLORENCE Freeman (Mrs. Ge-
rard S. Fowler), 140 Elsmere Rd.. Bronx-
ville 8, N. Y.

Secretary: Elizabeth Carrington Eggles-
TON. Hampden-Sydney. Va.
Fund Agent: Caroline Sharpe (Mrs.
Marion S. Sanders). '5S'i Union St., Wythe-
ville, Va.

Dear Classmates:

If "half a loaf is better than none," then
maybe my few crumbs of news arc better
than no news at all.

Classmates from way back when — some
who were at Sweet Briar only one year! —
have been grand about sending a letter or
brief note, which makes me feel as if I am
not just shooting arrows into the air. The
nctes are greatly appreciated, and make my
job much pleasanter.

My news crumbs will start with Eliza-
beth Eggleston. She returned to Sweet Briar
in June, but so late and briefly that her
"portrait" did not appear with Flo's and
iiiine posed on Reid Hall steps. In July on
a trip to Farm\ille. my husband and I kid-
napped her and took her to Williamsburg
to see the pageant. "The Common Glory."
We had hoped to go on to North Carolina
to see "The Lost Colony." but something
happened and that plan fell apart. But we
did see Nan Poirell Hodges' lovely new
house, and sat out a torrent of rain as we
chatted there.

Isabel Wood Holt and Isabel Luke Witt
also bobbed in and out all too briefly in
June at Commencement. My visit with Airs.
Dew in her apartment o\er in Amherst is
always one of my greatest pleasures when I
return to Sweet Briar.

Two freshman year classmates who lived
in Manson have written me. Jane Byrd
Ruffin Henry lives in Norfolk, and says that
this is the first time in years that "there is
no niece or young cousin at S. B." She has
granddaughters that she hopes will be
there someday. Also she was good enough
to suggest that I look her up. if I go to
the Jamestown Festival next year. Yes,
\eriiy, here's hoping on my part.

Alma Treietl Gerber lives in Illinois but
goes to Florida in winter. She wrote back
to ask whether there was a Sweet Briar Day
meeting in December near Miami. That
showed such real and lively interest that I
hated to have to tell her no. How about a
winter get-together in Florida for these mi-
gratory birds .-■

Here and now I want to broadcast an
appeal for Dorothy NX'allace's address. Any-
body know her whereabouts? My letters
bounce back like rubber checks.

Delia Mae Gilmore Gates forwarded a
printed newsy letter about her family and
her own activities, which are varied and
strenuous enough to leave me panting and
exhausted just thinking about them. Her
experience with jury duty was a lulu. Jurj'
awarded "accident victim money but made
it impossible for him to collect! " You will
be pleased and proud to know that "inde-
pendent American womanhood " in the
form of D. M. helped to get that rectified.
She enclosed a snapshot of herself with a
characteristically cheerful smile and peppy

expression that was a pleasure to behold.

Before Elizabeth adds her news items. I
want to put in a dandy one about her. In
the past few years she has been asked to
read her poetry in Danville, Norfolk, Farm-
ville, at colleges and Club meetings. One
of her poems, "L'il 'Stracted." I can testify
is most unusual and deeply appealing.

Louise H.nmnond Skinner is in Palm
Beach again this winter. I believe. Yoo-hoo,
how about the rest of you? In the West if
you haven't been dried up by drought,
flooded or burned out, please let us know.
The papers give us only the lurid news.
Best wishes.
Carrie Sbarpe Sanders,

Fund Agent

It was good of Carrie, busy with a mul-
titude of household and community duties,
to write the above. I would like to add one
more news-crumb. Dorothy Nejl Smith has
a fourth grand-baby, a little girl.

I recently took lunch with Stella Gtcynn
Waugh in Danville. We had many laughs
over old times. She was president of the
Freshman Class in 1918-19. the year the
Sophomores, for some inexplicable reason,
made them wear white aprons. I recall a
disgusted visitor's remark: "Nothing but a
rich girl's school; why. there were dozens
of maids all over the place!" Stella has a
pleasant covey of grand-daughters whom I
hope she is readying for 'The Briar. Her
own daughter — her portrait is most charm-
ing — alas, went to Randolph-Macon.
All good wishes.

Elizabeth

1921

President: FLORENCE 'W^OELFEL. 2620 Lake-
view Ave., Chicago 14, 111.
Secretary: Florence Woelfel.
Fund Agent: Rhoda Allen (Mrs. John S.
Worden), 9 Hugenot Drive, Larchmont,
N.Y.

Greetings to all and a bit of news from
a few. A suggestion from the Committee
on Decorating for our Class Gift — "a good
picture or print for the large space over the
mantlepiece"and I am taking the liberty of
approving this suggestion. They will make
the selection.

Ophelia Short Seward writes how much
she regretted not being with us last June —
her daughter Susan had 4 years at S. B.
which with joy that she was there also gave
Ophelia the opportunity to "keep up" with
the college and campus. Her daughter now
has a part-time job in an architect's oflSce
and is enjoying a gay time along with it.
Susan's room-mate is married to Ida Mas-
sie's son in Richmond and the stork recently
made Ida a grandmother.

Katherine Hai^tkins Baker's son is en-
,ea,ged to a girl from Gadsden. Ala. Eunice
Branch Hamilton lives here, where I visited
a few years ago. and I had a card from her
this Christmas. Ophelia saw Maylen Netrby
Pearce in Pompano. Fla.. last year lookin,g
wonderful. Am injecting a little news of
others at S. B. with us although they were
not in our Class.

Lette A\cLeinore Matthews and her hus-
band took "le grande tour" with friends
and as we know Lette. they didn't miss a
trick starting with the gay crossing on the
Isle de France and on through eight coun-
tries. It was a dream trip realized. On

Alumnae News

October 13th her younger daughter, Mar-
garet, was married so Lette immediately
was involved in wedding plans. Her older
daughter has a darling 2'/l> year-old girl.
Lette is busy with Garden Club and social
activities — she sees Grace Merrick Touhy,
Mattie Hjinmaiid Smith (her daughter
Anne will be married in April), Florine
Gilbi-rl Smith and Mary AicCu Deal quite
often.

Lette Shi/of' Dixon is doing a job she
loves and is so interested in — Librarian at
the Suftolk High School. Don't you know
she "gives " a lot to those youngsters be-
sides books — in fact the School Board sent
her as representative to Founders' Day
Round Table. Lette's children live within
a short distance and the fun with her
"small fry " keeps Lette young.

Now to California — Hildegarde FLv/inr
Monhof who lives in Altadena had a most
glorious trip with her husband and son
last summer to Paris to visit her sister. It
kept her from Class Reunion and we missed
her. They bought an old ranch in Napa
Valley and will vacation there this month.

"Shafe" ^X'adhams' husband recently re-
tired and they have left for a 2 months
trip to Mexico, where Mil Ellis Scales will
join them. "Shafe" has so many interests
and in many of them Chuck joins her — such
as gardening and interest (above average)
in world affairs — said she often gets in
deep water and for "Shafe" that means fun !
The latter includes research and a paper on
Nasser.

Emma Adams Kyle has been diligently
working for the V. M. C. A. - Y. W. C. A.
Building Fund for the West Hartford,
Conn., Center. Her daughter has two boys
and last summer they bought a charming
Cape Cod home in Ridgewood, N. J. Emma
and her husband joined them at Christmas.
Emma accompanies her husband on some of
his trips through the South and this time
she will spend 2 weeks in Richmond with
her sister. Soon Emma will be busy work-
ing on the Flower Mart which her Garden
Club exhibits in May.

Oden Greer recently moved to the War-
wick Hotel where she and her sister have
taken an apartment, following the death of
another sister. Our sympathy to you and
happy to know that, although the move
was a major change from your old home,
you are becoming adjusted. Oden writes
she continues with her painting.

Fran Simpson Cartwright writes that her
news is nihil — not even a new grandchild!
You were a dear to send a note and when
I come through Cincy en route to Hunting-
ton I will surely see you.

Shelley Rouse Aagesen's daughter Alice
is a Junior at St. Catherine's in Richmond
— getting nearer to Sweet Briar, we hope!
Shelley is Registrar for the Colonial Dames
of Michigan and last October attended the
Biennial (Council in Washington. The An-
tiques Forum is held every year in Wil-
liamsburg, which was surely an attraction
for Shelley.

Francese Euns Ives had planned to be
with us for Reunion but due to the illness
of her mother she had to go to Texas.
Francese has days and nights filled, with
her position as Town Clerk in Montclair,
N. J., and her devoted care nursing her
mother. As Town Clerk she took the regis-
tration of Frances R.iit] Wood, whose at-
tractive daughter, I believe, is an S. B. gal

too. After graduation from Princeton, Fran-
cese's son went into the Naval Air Intelli-
gence and is now at Moffet Field in Palo
Alto.

Florence Dowden Wood always writes of
such interesting and fascinating activities.
So glad to know you are recovering from an
almost fatal auto accident of 2 years ago.
She is now able to take up work again with
her husband which includes writing papers
and actually going on expeditions.

Time and space are running out but will
hurriedly mention a few of my own goings
and comings — sometimes I wonder just
where I am ! Last October flew to Mexico
City with friends and motored out of there
to Acapulco, Tasco, Cuernavaca, Fortin de
las Flores, and many more of the charming
places. Mexico has retained much of its old
atmosphere, is now digging up some of its
buried history and "manana" is still the
word — except for the Toreador in the bull
ring. It was fun to refresh my memory on
Spanish and it is very helpful with natives
and taxi drivers or bargaining at the mar-
kets. I do hope to go back.

Last Spring flew to Honolulu after a time
in Pasadena. Yelena Grgiuh Prosch and her
husband met us with leis and Honolulu
hospitality. They live in Chicago but were
on a holiday there. We found life in Ha-
waii could be lazy or un-lazy and we par-
ticipated in both. The islands have a charm
and beautv, and one hops a plane like a bus
to Kauai, Mauai or Hilo. After ten days of
surf-boarding someone said, "Don't you
know you can break your neck doing that,"
and, knowing my 35th reunion was on the
horizon, I took up floating in on the waves.
Flying back one engine conked out past
the "Point of no Return " and the bump as
we landed in San Francisco felt mighty
good. Had a gay week there and then re-
turned via beautiful Feather River 'Valley
and the Colorado River.

Spent Christmas in New York and Mary
Munson was with me. Joined the West-
chester group on the 28th and had visits
with Rhoda and Fanny of our class and Flo
Freeman Fowler and Gert Daily Massie, all
of which Mary and I enjoyed so much. Had
a treat when Gert and her daughter Adri-
enne played a two-piano duet. Rhoda had
been to Detroit for the christening of her
granddaughter. Rhoda's husband is again
very well, although they cannot be too
active socially. We saw the hit shows in
New York and were gay with friends.

Spent last week end in St. Louis and
stopped off for a visit with Mary Munson
in Springfield — she is tempting me to return
to S. B. in June for her Class Reunion — I
tempt easy so, maybe. Just cancelled reser-
vations for California but hope to get away
in a couple of weeks and possibly Florida
in April. Have been doing some work with
the Chicago Horticultural Society and have
enjoyed classes in Flower Arrangement.
The Woman's College Board here, of
which Sweet Briar is a member, had a most
interesting Forum "Living with Education"
with paper by the President of Sarah Law-
rence, an outstanding psychiatrist of the
Mayo Clinic, and a well-known Theatrical
Producer. The approach to the subject was
quite varied, as you can imagine.

I've received no offers to take over this
job and Im afraid I'm not doing the best
on it. If no one wants to have the fun of

writing you for news and waiting, waiting,
waiting to hear from you, I'll try and carry
on for another year.

1922

President: Elizabeth Huber (Mrs. Wm.
Welch II), Sunset Rd., Laverock Hills, Pa.
Secretary; Grizzelle Thomson, 1901
Claremont Ave., Norfolk, Va.
Fund Agent: Katherine Shenehdn (Mrs.
Louis W. Child), 1814 Knox Ave., So.,
Minneapolis ■). Minn.

Our 3'ith reunion comes up in June.
Please, please plan to attend. You know
that Virginia in early summer is still en-
chanting. ^X'ouldn't a swim in the lake be
fun ? Wonder if it is as muddy after a
rain as it used to be? Sometimes you felt
as if you were diving into solid ground.
Remember how we had to swear to Dr.
Harley that we had been taking cold show-
ers all winter before she would let us dip
in early in the spring? I can recall swim-
ming as late as November one year and
swimming is still my favorite sport. Then
I can still feel how sore my ankles were
the one and only time I have ever been on
ice skates. That was the only time the lake
was frozen hard enough for the sport while
we were at college.

Huber, just 35 years ago today we drove
through piles of snow at mid-terms to
spend the week-end at the Virginian.
There I ran into a friend, Toft'y Hall, who
fell head over heels for you. We went to
see the movie, "The Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse."

In the fall of 1918 how lucky we were
not to have any fatalities from the flu epi-
demic. Recall how we filed out to the
kitchen and helped ourselves sometimes to
two and three desserts as we practiced self-
service when so many maids were ill? And
then the wonderful partj' the faculty gave
us at Hallowe'en (the Refector)' was never
more attractively decorated) to celebrate
the end of the epidemic. The excitement of
our celebration of the false Armistice Day
by carr)'ing that enormous flag all around
the campus still sticks in my memory.

Kay Shenehon, think back to the day
we sat in a tree down by the lake and de-
cided we'd never swear again, only say
"Oh. Balsom" if we were irritated.

Was a May Day ever more beautiful
than our first? The clapping rings in my
ears now as we rejoiced when the sun came
out on May Day Eve after days of rain.
And of course we'll never forget "Every
Freshie Has to Wear Little Aprons White
and Fair." So in June come one and all
and we'll really reminisce. If you cannot
possibly make it. answer my cards and we'll
have a complete record.

Virginia Ransom said on her Christmas
card that Morrcll Jones Gibson had just
died after a long illness. How our heart
goes out to her family. Of the thirty-three
who graduated in 1922. Morrell is the sixth
to leave us. Catherine Cook passed on in
1942, Margaret Monk (Mrs. K. West, Jr.)
in 1948, Margaret Mierke (Mrs. Gilbert
Rossiter) in 19-10, Ruth Slater (Mrs.
Walter Wilson) in 1945 and Amey Smythe
in 1940. The following are listed as mis-
sing: Isabclle Frank (Mrs. T. Sutherland).
Elizabeth Schnorback (Mrs. M. Tackett),
Lillias Shepherd (Mrs. T. Williamson)

Spring 1957

and Jeanne Henidel (Mrs. W. Hall). Of
the 147 who started in 1918 we have 103
known addresses, 11 deceased, 22 lost and
1 1 removed from the list.

Alice B.ibcock Simmons wished on her
Christmas card that I was well and was not
as grey-headed as she was. Jane Guignard
is now Mrs. George Curry and still lives
in Columbia, S. C. Casy Shenehon Child
had a grand trip to Texas last winter. I
told you about my wonderful visit with her
two years ago.

Elizabeth Hiiber Welch was at S. B. in
October for two days as our reunion chair-
man and was thrilled with everything and
full of pride in our college. She plans to
be back, of course, in June. Trot Walker
had a fine time in Maine last August with
two of her children. Stopped at Cape Por-
poise one night and had lobster with Ruth
Fisbf Steeger and Charlie. They were so
hospitable that it was great fun being with
them. Henrietta Anderson had hoped to
.get to S. B. last year, but did not make
it. I was so disappointed in not being able
to reach her two years ago when I visited
Casy.

This is the first Christmas that I have
failed to hear from Charlotte Z-.rw.t/«.(; Hardy.
My heart goes out to her and her husband,
as their only son, Bobby, died two years ago
at the age of 27 years from a cerebral
hemorrhage. He was working at the time
with the Watertown Arsenal as a physical
metallurgist. The American Institute of
Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum En-
gineers has announced the establishment
of the Robert Lansing Hardy Gold Medal
which is to be awarded annually to a
young man who has exhibited exceptional
promise in the field of metallurgy. The med-
alist must be under 30 years of age. The
purpose is to encourage young men to
strive for superior attainments in the gen-
eral field of metallurgy. Arthur, Charlotte's
husband, is a professor of physics at
M. I. T. and consulting physicist for several
large corporations, so commutes from Bos-
ton to New York frequently.

Mary Klumph Watson writes that
"things go on much as usual with us here,
except we don't stay home as much as we
used to. After quite a stay in Arizona and
Mexico last winter, we are going back again
for about three months this year. The nice
dry climate was good for our arthritic
joints and there is a possibility we may pull
up stakes and move out there in another
year. We had a nice visit with Tom (son)
and his wife and their two little girls, Lise
and Susie, at Rehoboth Beach, Del., this
June. It is not too far from Neward where
Tom is teaching at the University. This fall
we flew to Sea Island, Ga., for a couple of
weeks and enjoyed ourselves there, despite
the fact that we ran into a baby hurricane.
My sister Kay's family is well. Her daugh-
ter, Malve. a beautiful young thing, is a
junior at Sarah Lawrence College. "

Margaret Munteii Tillar wrote that from
late February last year her garden was
lovely and that they were all excited over
plans for building a garage apartment on
their daughter Jeanne's lot at 'Virginia
Beach and that they hoped to have it
ready by April. If any of you get to the
Beach, you can reach her through the Page
Preston's phone. Her daughter's home is a
Dutch colonial house and their apartment

will be a tiny likeness. Her husband can
have a boat and do some fishing and relax-
ing. I hope to look up Peg when I get back
to the Beach next summer and will look
forward to a long visit.

Each year I receive such a grand letter
from Dr. Isabel Stone under whom I maj-
ored in Physics. She and her sister, after a
number of years in Puerto Rico, are back
in Miami, Fla. She is much concerned for
fear the present day public schools are aim-
ed at the average student and are neglect-
ing the superior mind. She taught in private
schools and tutored off and on all of these
years until recently. Her alertness and in-
terest in current happenings is simply
amazing. I have not seen Miss Morenus for
several years and miss her visits to Norfolk.

I am looking forward to June. I plan to
drive up with a former pupil of mine,
Jean Old, who has her tenth reunion. She
is a very good friend of Mattie Hammnnd
Smith's daughter. Martha, who married
Ben Smith. Florence Gilbert's son.

1923

Secretary: Marie S. Klooz, 3026 Porter
St., N. W., Washington 8, D. C.

Not too much to report this time. Just
some changes in addresses and some news
which came in too late to make the last
issue.

Jane Guignard (Mrs. George Curry)
now at 1501 Beltline Blvd., Columbia 1,
S. C.

Bessie Hoge Brown, at 1803 Park Ave.,
Richmond 20, 'Va.

Muriel M/ll/gai! (Mrs. John H. Hoev-
en,) at 519 S. Kline, Aberdeen, S. D.

Doris Nobles (Mrs. Gerald Blackburn),
at 2107 Van Buren, Amarillo, Texas.

Evelyn Plummer Read, at Wistar Rd.,
Villa Nova, Pa.

Clare Robertson McCutchan at 404 1 5th
Rd.. Huntington, W. Va.

Margaretta Tuttle, Midland, Mich.

Gertrude Geer Bassett writes: "We have
been in Winter Harbor, Me., for 10 weeks
this summer starting our retirement home.
It is to be in the form of a 5-story light-
house, the 2 top stories being studios for
my oil-painting. We expect to have it
finished by next summer. . . . I'm quite
sure that Dorothy Mackenzie is a teacher
in Birmingham, Mich."

Beth Hall Hatcher: "I have nothing to
report but a busy time as a plain old house-
wife. Our oldest daughter. Beth, married
last Christmas (1955), got her Master's in
Foreign Affairs from LI. 'Va. in June
(1956) and lives in Charlottesville. Our
middle daughter, Marney, lives and works
in New York City. Our youngest, Mary
Lynde, is a Senior in high school this year.
They fill all my time."

Muriel Mackenzie Kelly: "I have been
busy with guests ... In July Mel and I
spent a week in upper Michigan. It was
cool but we had a good time . . . We had
the pleasure of dining with the Proches.
Dorothy Wallace was a guest also — last
Saturday. The first of September Mel and
I will spend a week with Mack and his
family in a cottage on the Eastern Shore
of Maryland. Then perhaps a few days in
Washington. I have been busy with the
same old interests — no time for painting."

Alumnae like The HISTORY
Lydia Ponsonby Wilmer, '23, wriles:
"Congratulations on a wonderiul publica-
tion!"

Dorothy Nickelson Williamson, '23.
writes: "A most delightful trip down
Memory Lane."

1926

Secretary: RuTH Abell (Mrs. Burnett
Bear), Pleasant "Valley, Pa.
Fund Agent: Helen Meitschler (Mrs.
Markel Becker), Winter Haven, Fla.

I am so glad I was asked to be secretary
for the Class of 1926; it has been a delight
hearing from all of you!

Such a nice letter from Helen Meitschler
Becker in which she told of flying to Potts-
town, Pa., this fall with her son and hus-
band to enter Duke at Hill School. Then
she and Markel drove to New Jersey to
visit their daughter, Pat, her husband and
their 3 grandchildren. Their other daugh-
ter, Tweedle, was married in November.

News from Betty Moore Rusk is that
their son, Whitten, graduated from Wes-
leyan last June and is now at Officer's Can-
didate School at Newport, R. I. Their older
daughter, Gwen, is a sophomore at Deni-
son, and their youngest, Mary, is in 8th
grade in Haddonfield.

Anne Barrett Allaise writes that she
heard from Elizabeth Matthew Nichols at
Christmas. The Nickols love living in
Japan, and will return in 1958 well armed
with Kodachrome slides! In another year,
their older daughter hopes to matriculate
at Sweet Briar.

Mary Loiighery Arthur's middle son is at
the L'niversity of Chicago.

A note from Dot Bailey Hughes: "We
had our entire clan home for the holidays;
3 sons. 2 daughters-in-law and 2 grand-
daughters. Needless to say, there never was
a dull moment. In case no one has told you,
Donald Cameron Franklin III has arrived.
He is the son of Peggy McClements and
Ruth Taylor Franklin's son. They also have
a daughter. Our youngest and only bachelor
is a senior at Indiana. One does age!"

And in another wonderful letter from
Lois Peterson Wilson, she told me that she
had visited Jeanette Hoppinger Schanz in
Cleveland last Fall. The Schanz' older son
is out of the Army and has established him-
self in business with his f.ither. Jeanette
and Jack are flying to Jamaica in February
to spend several weeks at Montego Bay.

Loey and Jeanette had luncheon with
Sarah Merricli Henriet and saw pictures of
the Henriet's new home and their daugh-
ter Nancy's 2 children. Sally was married
last June to an ensign, and Paul and his
wife are still in Germany with the Army.
Last summer, Sarah, Nancy and the grand-
children joined her sister Grace Merrick
Twohy ('24) at the latter's summer house
on the Virginia shore.

And from Loey's Christmas cards come
the following:

Mar>' Bristol Graham and her husband
drove their daughter Judy back to Sweet
Briar in September, and went back again
to visit in October.

Peg Reinhold was much disappointed to
have missed reunion: the time conflicts
with her duties.

Atiiitiude News

Jenny Lee Taylor Tinker, who is now
living in a new home in Montclair, wrote
that their ilauuhter loan had dinner recently
with Pri.sulla Kelley. Kay Nonis Kelly's
dau>;htcr.

Helen Adams Thomson had all the chil-
dren home for the holidays; son Bill and
wife and 3 children from St. Louis; Ian.
the airline ho.stess, from Pittsburgh, and
Joan from college. Hadze has been assistant
librarian in Swarthmore for a number of
years, but resigned last fall, as both house
and job got to be too much.

In October, the Wilsons took advantage
of the fact that the American Bankers
Association Convention was in Los Angeles
and went out to attend it. The highlight of
the entertainment provided was an after-
noon in Disneyland. It took S2 buses to
transport 8,()()l) bankers and their wives out
there. No one wanted to miss the trip.
"They stayed on in Los Angeles sight-
seeing and returned home via the Grand
Canyon. They are planning to move into
their new home about February H and are
looking forward to 'house-living' instead
of 'apartment living.' The welcome mat is
always out for any 26ers and husbands who
come to Toledo, especially this June for the
National Open Golf Tournament at the
Inverness Country Club."

The Bears are still in love with their
farm house, looking forward to their son's
return from Germany, and their daughter's
graduation from Smith.

Jane Hunter Halloway and her husband
visited mutual friends of ours in Saucon
■Valley just before Christmas. Jane and I
had a grand visit — it didn't seem possible
that it was over 30 years since we had .seen
one another!

1927

Ptex/dti/t; Madpline Brown (Mrs. Mc-

Farland Wood), Walnut Hill Farm. Hop-

kinsville, Ky.

Strr^Liry: JuLiA Reynolds (Mrs. Robert

H. Dreisbach), 908 Kinnaird Avenue, Fort

Wayne 6, Ind.

Fund A^eiit: Elizabeth Mathews (Mrs.

Harry A. Wallace, Jr.), 327 Professimal

BUIg., Charleston 1, W. Va.

Greetings from the frozen North ! This
5 degree above zero weather makes me
look forward more than ever to the warm
reception I know we'll get at our reunion
in June of this year. Isn't that a sneaky
way to remind you that you should be
planning an enthusiastic return to campus?
Besides the wonderful time you'll have
renewing old acquaintances, that is the
time you'll elect a new secretary — so — y'all
come!

It was such fun to receive Christmas
cards from some of you with welcome bits
of news on them. Libbo VCallace (Elizabeth
Malheus, Fund Agent, to whom I hope
you've all sent contributions) gave me
several items, for which I am thankful.
Tom Foltz (Babe Albiin' son) is manager
of Phi Delts at Washington and Lee and
Babe and her husband visited him in
N<weniber. At home Babe is involved in
Service League. Children's Home and Hos-
pitals, Red Cross and State Conferences for
the Handicapped, and State Democratic
Committee.

Julia Wilson visited Jo SiiouJtn Dur-
ham in Charlcstown at Christmas. Jo saw

Sally Jamison in Charlotte, N. C. 'Virginia
Franke and Walter Davis operate the Lyric
Circus during the summer in Scaneateles,
N. Y., where they produce Broadway musi-
cals. Gwinn Hams (Mrs. Beverly St.
George Tucker) has two adorable grand-
children; Gwinn (age 3) and David (age
1). Gwinn's son, James Harris Scott, is
stationed in Stuttgart, Germany.

A card from Betty Bachman Hardcastle
came in too late for the last newsletter so
I've saved it carefully for this one. It told
of the marriage of her oldest son Hendrick
in Tampa, Fla., in August, 195(). He and
his bride are both Mechanical Engineers
and are graduates of Vanderbilt Engineering
School. Ken reported in October for army
duty and his wife is living off base during
his stint. Another card from Alice Eskestu
Ganzel said she missed the deadline for the
October letter because she hadn't a thing to
report but that on Sept. 1st Dot Garland
Weeks and her husband. Bill, stopped in
on their way home from Maine so they all
had fun at a dinner and dance.

By now Pauline Payne Backus should be
in their new home, since in her last letter
she said their new address after January 1st
would be; -ilO^ Robinhood Lane, Sherwood
Forest, Toledo 13, Ohio. Isn't that a de-
lightful address? She says the home is really
outside of Sylvania, Ohio, but has the
Toledo address. Pauline says that Lois
Peterson Wilson, '26, lives in Toledo and
that Lois still has her wonderful enthusiasm
and many, many interests. Marg Cramer
Crane is hoping to get to our 30th reunion.
She says her daughter Cathy is graduating
from Rosemary about that time so she has
her lingers crossed on the date.

It was good to have a letter from Connie
Van Ness in the fall. She gave me several
news items I didn't have. Sara McHenry
has moved from New York to San Fran-
cisco. Also Connie asked what class Sarah
Dance was in. I'm not sure, but I remember
Sarah, so know this news will interest all.
Connie's cousin, Margaret Clover Symonds,
wrote from Texas that her son Bill was
marrying Sarah Dance Krooks' daughter.
Connie said Sarah looks much the same
from a newspaper clipping her cousin sent.
Connie said her life is its usual complicated
self — trying to keep the apartment in New
York during the week — keeping an eye on
the old house and her mother in Little
Falls, N. Y.. on weekends — and her archi-
tectural work with draftsmen unobtainable
in New York. She had a short summer visit
at Martha's Vineyard and was planning a
trip with her mother through New York
State and into Canada.

Peggy Led Briganti wrote at Christmas
that her .son Dan and wife are in Schenec-
tady. N. Y., where he is with General Elec-
tric Co. They have two boys — Steven and
Douglas (so can have Steven-Douglas de-
bates as they grow older). Son, Bruce, is
in San Antonio — not married — and is work-
ing for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

Edna Lee Gilchrist and her twin daugh-
ters visited Cornelia W'ailes Wailes in
Africa this summer. A Christmas note from
Margaret Cornwell Schmidt says she and
Ruthie arc happy to be back in St. Louis.
Ruthie is in 7th grade at Burroughs where
Margaret is teaching. They're planning a
summer trip to Europe. Theodora Cheese-
man was married to Mr. demons John
Mrusek of Reading. Ohio, on Oct. 3. They

had a wedding trip through the Allegheny
Mountains and are now living in Cincin-
nati.

^X'hen I wrote the fall letter I was about
to take off for New Orleans with daughter
Jerry (S.B. '5-1) to help drive her car down.
We had loads of fun going a new way.
So far we've gone by way of Mobile, by
way of Memphis, Vicksburg and Natchez,
and this fall by way of Paducah, Meridian,
etc. I've loved every minute of it and have
learned names of towns I never knew ex-
isted. I stayed in New Orleans and had fun
while Jerry got settled for her second year
as a Graduate Student in the Art Dept. at
Tulane and Sophie Newcomb, then I took
the train into Chicago and back down here.
Our tirst daughter. Georgia (S.B. '51), has
been elected president of the Charlottes-
ville. Va.. Sweet Briar Alumnae group for
next year. Our entire family came home for
Christmas. Jerry came from New Orleans
and Georgia, Jack and Julia Reynolds (age
13 months) from Charlottesville, so Bob
and I had a wonderful holiday. It's such
fun being grandparents. Try it, everyone.

Plan to come to S.B. for our 30th re-
union — and be sure that all of you write me
any news you have. I very sneakily held
back a few items before — but I'm fresh out
of news now — so write, please.

1928

Class Secretary: BETTY MooRE (Mrs.
Arthur Y. Schilling), 1011 Childs Ave.,
Drexel Hill, Pa.

Fund Agent: Marion Jayne (Mrs. Carlos
Berguido), 135 Rose Lane, Haverford. Pa.
Dear Classmates:

So long since '28 made the News that
I do not know what is news ! Marion and
I have picked up bits of information on
Christmas cards, and in answer to her droll
poem (to quote "Aust" Austin Kinloch).
and on our several trips to S. B. C. Our
last visit was in October and was delight-
ful. Everyone there went overboard to en-
tertain the visiting alumnae. We were
especially happy to find two other '28ers
there — Rip K./« Winkle Morlidge (who is
secretary of Alumnae Council) and Sue
jelley Dunbar. We had our own small re-
union.

Maricn and I were also at college last
May. and then on to Williamsburg for two
delightful days. We had a grand cocktail
hour (or more) with Ann Harrison Shep-
herd Lewis and her husband in their charm-
ing colonial home. Anne Harrison had seen
Grace Sunderland Owings who is still liv-
ing in Laurel, Md.

I know how sorry you will be to learn
that Marion lost her husband in an airplane
crash a little over a year ago. Carlos was a
member of the Development Board and is
greatly missed by Sweet Briar as well as
his family and his many friends. Their 3rd
daughter, June, is making quite a name for
herself at S.B. Marion is going down again
in February as a member of the Executive
Board of Alumni Council and then on to
Atlanta to visit "Kewpie " Hodnett Mc-
Daniel.

Here are our latest reports on change of
residence: Sarah Dance Krook to San Fran-
ci.sco from Toronto. Mrs. Sara McHenry
also in San Francisco. Lib Oliier White to
Charlotte, N. C. Virginia Torrance Zim-
merman from Darien, Conn., to Long Is-

Sprinc, 1957

land. Jane Poindexter Hunter to Savannah.
Margaret Fuller Riggs to Gladwyne, Pa.,
from Cincinnati.

We learned with regret that our class-
mate Katherine Page had passed away.

Kay Aieyer Mauchel is a raiser of cocker
spaniels. She and her husband are now at
their winter home on a Caribbean Island.
"Aust" has two grandchildren, and a son
just commissioned in the navy, and a rock
'n' roll IJ year old. Lil Wood is very
•active in the Oxford Movement and is usu-
ally out of town. Susan T.ilbott Chase's
husband is headmaster at the Eaglebrook
School. Ann Beth Pi ice Clark has a son at
Princeton. Ann Lane Newell Whatley { last
I heard) was busy preparing for visiting
relatives for the debut of her niece, Mary
Lane Bryan. Lu Finch McCallum has a
daughter living near here and has promised
to contact us next time she comes down.
Emily F.jrrell Stagg has four grandchildren.
Let me know if that is a record for our
class.

Libby Jo/ies Shands is now in Newport,
R. L, where her husband. Admiral Shands,
is in charge of a carrier division. Kitty
Leadbeater Bloomer's second son is on a
trip around the world on a brigantine.
Kitty is going around herself in July and
hopes to run into son Peter. Squeak Hjrned
Ross' daughter, Deborah, planned to be
married during the holidays. Muggsie
Nelms Locke still loves Alabama. She sent
me a volume of wonderful Mobile recipes
but I am afraid to try them 'cause my
family might not want to go back to dawgs
and burgs. My oldest boy, Fred, graduated
from the Naval Academy in June and is
now an Ensign on the aircraft carrier Leyle.

I know that this is a hectic, disconnected
letter but hope that my efforts to bring you
up to date will inspire you to send loads
of items for the next issue. Many, many
thanks to those of you who have contrib-
uted to the Fund. Nancy Burton writes that
our class is making a wonderful showing.
Let's make it 100%. As you know, Marion
is helping me with the class notes and I am
assisting her with the Fund. That way we
hope to do better by both !

Alumnae like The HISTORY
Lisa Guigon Shinberger, '29, writes: "I

think the book is wonderiul."

Carolyn Martindale Blouin, '30, writes:

"Couldn't put it down until I'd finished it."

1931

Secretary: Elizabeth S. ClARK, 227 Bos-
ton Ave., Lynchburg, "Va.
Cliiss Agent: Peronne 'Whittaker (Mrs.
Robert Scott), 32 Whitman St., Haworth,
N. J.

Here it is another year and time moves
on apace. Sweet Briar is swimming merrily
along and the new dormitory is a thing of
beauty. You must all come to see it!

Just before Christmas I journeyed to
Marietta, Ga., to the wedding of Jean
Cole Anderson's daughter, Lovat, and John
J. Wilkins III of Athens, Ga. The wedding
and all its attendant functions were beau-
tiful and great fun, but the best part of all
was seeing Jean and her family. Lovat is a
lovely girl, and she married a grand boy.
They are both seniors at the L'niversity of
Georgia. David, Jean's eighteen year old

son, is a most attractive lad. I had not seen
him since he was a babe in arms, so it was
good to make his acquaintance. Jean was
a most becoming mother of the bride in
mocha lace.

I saw Mary l.iiierence Sessions, '30g, who
lives in Marietta. She entertained at coffee
one morning while I was there. She has an
attractive husband, two boys, and a beauti-
ful home. She said her sister, Helen Law-
rence VanderHorst, had wanted to get to
the wedding, but a bishop's wife is a busy
lady at Christmas time.

Mart von Briesen sent me a letter that
she had received from Jane Bikle Lane who
is living in Philadelphia. She was in Hono-
lulu for a month before Christmas in 1955.
Her husband is a Marine Administrator for
the Sun Oil Co. His work carries him far
and wide. He might have to go to London
soon (or might have gone by now) on
some business about oil tankers for the
Suez. If Jane can get a passport in time
she wants to go with him.

I saw in the Lynchburg News that Fannie
O'Brien Hettrick's father, John Lord
O'Brien, was presented the New York Bar
Association's annual Gold Medal award for
meritorious service. Fannie's parents are
now living in Washington, D. C. She sees
them frequently. Fannie and her youngest
son George were in Buffalo at Christmas
time where they had a family get-together.

Eleanor Fjulk Cone seems to have left
her sunny Louisiana for foreign parts. We
have a change of address card with an APO
Seattle. Sounds most interesting. Her hus-
band is Col. Montie Cone and they are at
Ft. Greely, which must be in Alaska.

It might be a little late to look it up, but
if you have one, or can borrow a January,
1957, copy of the Ladies' Home Journjl,
you will see Alumnae Children on parade.
Look at the How Young Americ.i Lives
section. The first full page picture shows
three girls embracing. The one facing the
camera is Jane Baber, daughter of Lucy
Harrison Miller Baber, '30. The next full
page spread shows a group of teen-agers
singing. There are two boys and a girl on
a settee at the top of the picture. The boy
on the right looking with adoring eyes at
the girl is Ebo Fauber, oldest of Ella
Wtllt.ims Fauber's three sons. He is a fresh-
man at the L'niversity of Va.

More anon about us and ours. Please
write me some nice long letters all about
your doings. Pretty soon I am going to take
a census of the newly-wed children and
newly-arrived grandchildren. I am sure the
crop will make us both proud and de-
pressed. So far I haven't seen that we are
coming apart at the seams. It takes more
than a few grandchildren and gray hairs to
put us young things into a decline.

1932

President: Marjorie Mri.i.ER (Mrs. I. F.
Close), 1475 Caledonia Rd., Town of Mt.
Royal, Quebec, Canada.
Secretary: Elizabeth Job (Mrs. A. H,
Jopp), 503 Scott Ave.,"Pikeville, Ky.
Fund Agent: SusAN Marshall (Mrs.
^X'. B. Tmiberlake), Ridgewood Rd., Staun-
ton, 'Va.

Hold the presses! Our class news letter
is late because the night I set aside to write
it I could have floated it to you in a bottle.
Pikeville, Kentucky, had the worst flood in

Perry and lessie Cobuin LaukhuH, '33, and

daughter taken when Perry lectured at

Sweet Briar recently.

its history. We live on high ground but the
water lacked two feet getting in our door.

Gus stayed at the Kentucky Power Com-
pany all night, helping them hold the pow-
er. It stayed on. No gas, no water, no
phones — but the blessed light (and heat
that went with it) looked like Noah's
rainbow. As the water receded, it left a
thick fudgelike layer of mud. With no
city water to clean it oft and rain for six
more days it was terrible. Now that it is
drying up, we have dust and grit. But let's
look ahead to June and something cheer-
ful — our 25th reunion.

I've saved parts of this letter from Jane
Hays Dowler for a year now to get us
pepped up about our reunion. "Dear gals.
It seems incredible that this year we'll be
quarter-century alumnae, doesn't it? Let's
plan to meet at Sweet Briar, all of us, not
just a handful. I've been back twice on
flying journeys, only for an hour or so.
Just long enough to drive slowly around
and show my children the old haunts. I
have never quite been able to manage a
reunion. Too many commitments, as we
all have these days. But it's a must in 1957.

"You wonder how the years have treated
me. It depends on the way you look at it —
or me. I can still hike with my Girl Scout
Troop 58, but I can't sing at the same
time. I'm too busy trying to breathe! I
can still wear a size 12 dress but it has to
be a little more subtle around the middle.
I'm beginning to read ads about color-
rinsing your hair, wrinkleproofing your
face and such. But most of the time I just
avoid mirrors and have a wonderful life.
Our offspring. Penny, Steve and Mark, are
healthy, lively and lots of fun — even if
Dick and I do groan and fall into chairs ex-
hausted at their bedtime.

"It's the story of those middle years
everyone talks about. We're it, and a busy
life it is, with once in awhile a moment
of introspection, when we think how long
■ago we left Sweet Briar, and what fun it
would be to go back for a chat with all
the girls. Let's do it, shall we? Jane."

Marcia Patterson plans to come if she
can get away from the year-end chores of
her job as resident Latin teacher at Kent
Place School in Summit, N. J. Last sum-
mer Marcia visited Wilhelmina Rankin
Teter ('30) in Florida. She phoned Sue
Burnett Davis between planes in Atlanta
to learn that Sue, her husband and son
Tread (a freshman at Princeton) were
touring Mexico.

Ahiniiiae News

Virginia Finch Waller, with the moral
support of her former roomie, Clara Miiii-
iihig West, married off her older son, Ben,
Jr., last August. Ben, Jr., and wife returned
to Rice Institute for him to take his 5th
year in Architecture. He has an A.B. (with
distinction) from there. Her younger son,
Morton, attends .Southwestern at Memphis.
Both Clara and Virginia hope to make our
re-union.

Hope Virginia Btll.iiiiy Rutfin can make
it to the gathering so we can see if she is
still as beautiful or if she has passed all
her good looks on to her two daughters and
.son. Their pictures made a wonderful
Christmas card.

All is well with Adelaide Sniiih Nelson
and her family in Arizona. Do try to make
it, Adelaide. A get-together wouldn't be
complete without some of your wild tales
and schemes.

Ginny Squibb Flynn, who has been active
in alumnae work in Connecticut, has a son
at Brown University, and one ready for
college next fall. Bring Kate Scoll Sholes,
another Connecticut Yankee, and come on
down South this June.

From her Christmas card my roomie,
Ruth A."t))- Fortune, doesn't look as if she
had changed a bit. Don't blame her for
not wanting to leave her handsome husband,
but hope she makes it to S. B.

Perhaps Emma Knoullon Lytle's daugh-
ter, Eleanor Humphreys, who is a sopho-
more at Sweet Briar, will get her to the
re-union. From their pictures, Eleanor has
her mother's fine features and smile — just
lacks the bU;nde hair in being a chip off
the old block. The other two children.
Susan and Bob, seem to be a composite of
Emma and Stuart. They live in Oregon. 111.

Alice D.ibiit) Parker, Flappy P,iin\iif
Mandcville, Marg Miller Close, and lots
of others are busy preparing a variety of
skits, songs, dinners, and gab-sessions for
us to enjoy in June. So you-all come!

Those who have already said they are
coming include Betty Allen Magruder, Vir-
ginia lemison, Elizabeth lob. Virginia
Squibb Sue Burnett, Letha Morris, lane
Hays, Mary Moore Pancake, Marjorie
Miller. Helen Pratt. Hazel Stamps, Em
Green. Elizabeth Douglass. Ruth Kerr,
Dorothy Smith, Betsy Higgins, Sally Shal-
lenberger, Alice Dabney. Others who are
planning on making it include Bea Stone.
Constance Fowler. Elizabeth Clary. Sarah
Brigh Gracey. Emily Maxwell, Frances
Sencindiver and Marcia Patterson.

1933

Presidenl: Httti Wells (Mrs Frederick
W. Finn), ,S1 West Brother Drive, Green-
wich, Conn. 1
Secretary: Annf Marvin, 15I.S D.iiry Ro.id.
Charlottesville, Va.

Fund Agent: Gtbrv M.alt.orv, 169 E.'.st
Clinton Avenue, Tenafly, N I

This column nearly needed another
secretary again — I only took it on for the
second liiiw to try to keep '335 allotted
space from being bhink! One of our class-
mates wrote me this card "Do enjoy
traveling but hope your column will be
filled with news from other classmates
as I enjoy reading what ihey'ie doing. "
So do I, but a secretary cannot manufacture

news, and answers to my cards have been
few ! So please send me news of yourselves
and your families so I won't repeat my
error!

Lois Foster Moore keeps very busy with
her two boys about to be 10 and 13, she
is chairman of the Patient's Library of
their hospital; and is still an Alumnae
Representative which she enjoys. Lois
hears from Marge Gubelman Hastert in
Hawaii and Ruth Dalies Young in Cali-
fornia.

Nevil Crule Holmes is active with the
Girl Scouts and has a troop. She is on the
district training committee and also on the
Speaker's bureau for New Schools and also
improving Sunday School courses. The
Holmes live right between Viiughan's Jun-
ior High and Beth's fourth "rade at their
new address, 1400 Cereal A\'.p,uc in Hamil-
ton, Ohio.

Doris Crane Loveland has a fifth child
"Cyrene" born July 14, 1955. Her oldest
son is at Westtown Boarding school and
Doris is trying to interest her daughter in
going to Sweet Briar.

Susalee BeUer Norris has a daughter
Eleanor at Sweet Briar. Eleanor is 18. a
sophomore, and "adores" Sweet Briar. The
Norris family spent last summer on the
coast in South Carolina and are now back
in New Orleans. Susalee's five year old
daughter Susalee keeps her mother busy.
Susalee also has a fourteen year old step-
daughter living with her — "Quite a house
of girls!" Susalee saw Sue Graves Stubbs
and her husband. The Stubbs are trying to
get their daughter Sue interested in going
to Sweet Briar next year.

Sue Graves Stubbs wrote me a nice long
letter. She has three children — Sue 17,
King, Jr., and John 6 — "which accounts
for the rapid pace" of her days. Sue "re-
visited Sweet Briar in June — the campus
was as lovely as ever — tho deserted except
for a grand brief visit with Jackie Wood. "
She had Sue with her "to expose her to
the Briar Patch. " Sue goes on to say, "We
are hoping that she can be a freshman there
this fall ... I had King, Jr.. with me also
— we had driven hijn to Davidson to play
in the Southern boys tennis tournament.
Had a grand afternoon in Greensboro with
Cordelia Peiui Cannon — whose home is as
lovely as she is — we visited Ella ]esse
Latham in Alexandria — her children are
darlings." Sue and her husband are plan-
ning a trip to Europe this spring and will
spend two weeks in Paris, Florence and
('openhagen.

Lena Jones Craig and her family live on
a farm about eight miles from town so she
spends much of her time commuting. Her
daughter Susan is 1 i and her son Tommy
is 12. They are both in Junior High School.
Lena writes, "I garden a lot and still do
the usual things with Civic Drives, etc.,
and go to Garden Club Council. " She sees
Agnes Cleveland Sandifer occasionally as
she lives near the Craigs.

Dorothy Brell Prentiss and her family
had a delightful vacation at Cambridge
Beaches in Bermuda last summer. She then
accompanied her fourteen-year old to a
"Magician s Convention " in Battle Creek,
Michigan, where he did a show (magic
has been his first love since the age of
five). Vi'e have two boys — Gregory in
7th grade and the other son a sophomore

at Western Reserve Academy. Dot sings in
the choir as she did at Sw-cet Briar.

Miki Murdoch Martin says "We are in
status quo — the daughters in their teens,
Hugh busy. I still write a column in
GardenetfS but this is my year for the
church as Woman's Auxiliary President,
for which I've given up assorted items.
Our summer was partly spent in the pleas-
ant fogs of Jamestown, R. 1. "

Sue Johnson Simpson writes "Our two
older boys are at Episcopal High so I see
Ella Jesse Latham occasionally, but have
been disappointed not to run into Mar-
garet Lanier Woodruni, whose son has had
a fine record there."

Louise Wooduard Hurtt's card tells of
many of our classmate.s — "My news is quite
stale by this time but I'll send it along
anyway. Last April, Anne Brooke, Kitty
House Maclellan and I had lunch together
in ^X'ashington where Kitty was attending
a convention of her husband's insurance co.
Later in the week. Kitty Gochnauer Slater
had lunch with Kitty, too. In Oct., Muggy
(Marietta Derby) Garst of London spent
sometime with me, also her daughter. She
was here to put her son, Jock, in the L'. of
Va. and to look at colleges around the
countryside for Jane who'll come over from
London next Sept. — A card from Betty
Gochnauer Church at Xmas told of her
wonderful time abroad this summer. Her
older son. Randy, is a senior at \J. of Va.
this year. — Just heard today that Frances
Poicell Zoppa's daughter will make her
debut in Richmond next winter."

Marge Burford Crenshaw's address until
June 15 is either 99 Shore Dr., Middle-
town, R. I., or c/o Naval 'War College,
Newport. After June 15 she will be back
at her old stand, 613 Marshall Street,
Lexington, Virginia. Marge says that the
Newport winter was grim — "15 below with
a forty mile an hour wind."

Sarah Ellen Wilson Barbour saw Ger-
trude Raymond Dempster and her husband
not long ago. Gertrude looked fine. The
Dempsters have four children. Sarah Ellen
goes on to say, "I have three children, 15,
10 and a, the youngest a boy. A Girl Scout
troop for the ten year old keeps me fairly
busy and is much fun. I see a good deal
of Roberta Draue Wood '32."

Mary Buick is still teaching and loves it.
She has the third grade. Mary is studying
toward her permanent teaching certificate.
She was elected Teacher Vice-President of
their P. T. A. for this year. Besides her
school activities. Mary takes in the Detroit
Symphi ny. the Cranbrook Music Guild
monthly concerts, the Cranbrook Institute
of Science lectures and movies, and Audu-
bon programs. This past summer she relaxed
and had fun- -to quote; "In July I took
oft for Canada and the Stratford Shake-
spearean and Music Festival which I en-
joyed. From there I went up to Muskoka
to my old haunt — Fairyport — to visit a
friend who has a cottage there. Then I
went on north another fifty miles to
Knoepfli Inn on the Magnotawn River
..." and had a delightful time there.

It was good to hear from Mary Brooks
Barnhart Carlton, Babs Barber Wilson,
Gerry Mallory, Hetty Wells Finn and Dot
Smith Berkeley.

We are all very sorry to hear that Ger-
ry's parents are so far from well, partic-

Sprinc. 1957

ularly her mother. Gerry wrote iiic a lon>;
letter — 1 do wish I could do somethin.i; to
help.

Dot Smith Berkeley. '32, has an attrac-
tive daughter Judy at Sweet Briar. Dot
lost her dear mother not lon.t! a,t;o and we
send her our heartfelt sympathy.

Mary E. Clemuns Porzelius' nice card
just tame and she says "My oldest, Bettie.
17, is >;etting ready to go to college in the
fall but she is looking for a coed university.
Susan will be in the 1st year High. We
had a wonderful tour of the west and the
Canadian Rockies last summer — our first
trip west."

1934

Presideiil: Elizabeth Scheur (Mrs. Chas.
R. Maxwell, Jr.), 113 E. 61 St., N. Y. C.
Secnijiy. pit) tern: Bonnie >X'ood (Mrs.
Don B. Stookey), 33 Summit Dr., Hastings
on Hudson, N. Y.

FHiid Agent: Elizabeth Suttle (Mrs.
Clarence Briscoe), 440 N. Rose Lane,
Haverford, Pa,

Amazed and delighted to receive 38 re-
plies in two weeks, I have so much "copy"
that my thanks are fervent but brief !

I want to put Mary Walton McCjiidlish
Livingston's letter early in the notes so
that you will surely get it read before the
school bus arrives or some other emergency !
As usual, Mary Walton provokes us to
serious thought. She is discouraged about
two of her major interests and points out
some interesting facts. She has been helping
resettle two refugee families from East
Germany and deplores the fact that the
Refugee Relief Act expired Dec. 31 with
19,000 visas unused because of red tape.
Secondly, Mary Walton has been a member
of organizations, religious and secular,
which have taken a stand for "orderly
implementation of the Supreme Court de-
cision" on school integration. Her regret
is that the political leaders of Virginia
have opposed any degree of compliance
with the Supreme Court decision. Mary
Walton feels that "those of us who are
in favor of public education and of respect
for the LI. S. Supreme Court have been
too quiet and have allowed the apostles of
prejudice to monopolize the headlines."
Let's hear what the rest of the southerners
of 1934 are finding and feeling on this. I
agree with Mary Walton but think it seems
presumptuous for a northerner to declaim
when we have no problem.

Virginia Hiill Lederer cheers me with
philosophy that "life begins at 43!" She
is job-hunting for part-time editorial work
now that her daughters are 15 and 8. Her
husband's new book on insurance has given
her recent practice in the editorial work.
Virginia has fascinating hobbies, too —
target shooting and the autoharp. She is
working for Wayne Dumont for N. J.
governor, husband of Helen Williamson
Dumont, '37, of Lancaster, Pa.

Mitzi Hanijun Fried was in Nassau for
the International Sports Car and Boat Races
in December and had a gay time. June of
\9'>f, will see the Frieds attending three
graduations, a son from L^ of Penn., a son
from high school and a daughter from
junior high. (Save June of 1959. Mitzi,
and everybody!) Mitzi tells of an adopted
family in England and the reward this
contact brings her.

Eleanor, 15, Dan, 1, Maiy, 13, and Eliza-
beth, 11 (standing), children o( Eleanor
Cooke Eslerly, '34g.

Marjorie Van Evera Lovelace has a
daughter who is president of Student Coun-
cil at her school and a son in 9th grade.
Marjorie is surprized to find herself presi-
dent of their garden club and very
enthusiastic. Her hobby of watching the
stock market has led her to take courses
in investment securities, and she sounds
like an expert to me!

Marjorie is losing her neighbor Marjorie
L,ii,ir Hurd in January and we in the East
will benefit, as Lasar's husband's insurance
company is merging with one in Newark.
The Hurd big news is daughter Julie's en-
gagement to Frank Gordon Logan, Jr.,
senior in engineering at Washington Llni-
versity. Lasar reports that Jane Forder
Stribling's daughter graduates from Rad-
cliffe this June.

Jackie Bond Wood reports her son is 6
ft. 1 in. and on football and basketball
teams at Virginia Episcopal School. Her
two daughters are in school in Lynchburg.
Daughter Kate rides with Miss Rogers
and loves it. Daughter Lisa doesn't like
horses (they're so big), likes boys better.
Jackie says the new dorm is so beautiful.
(Come see in June 1959.)

In spite of being very active in the civic
and community service department herself,
Mason Daniel Barrett gets the "most satis-
faction out of trying to keep up with her
husband, Edward, who is Dean of the
Graduate School of Journalism of Columbia
LIniversity, and their two frisky daughters
of 14 and 12."

Cecil Birdsey Fuessle is busy in spite of
both daughters being away, Emily at Con-
necticut College and Jacqueline at National
Cathedral. Cecil saw Marion Gtrallney
Hall and Jo Happ Willingham at Christ-
mas in Macon. 'The Fuessles entertained
Helen Lawrence Vander Horst, '31, and her
husband, Suft'ragan Bishop of Tennessee,
when Bishop Vander Horst preached at
Lehigh, where Ray Fuessle is Chaplain.

Eleanor Couke Esterly is the proud and
busy mother of four — three girls, ages 1 5,
13 and 11, and a baby boy of 1 year! She
sees Betty Carter Clark and Lou Dreyer
Bradley quite often.

Lydia Guodirin Ferrell, Marjorie Smith
Zengel and I compared notes as to how our
young like Latin, since we spent so many
hours doing it together! Lydia has two gad-
about teenagers and two little boys, 7 and

3. and still manages to be president of the
William Byrd Community House in Rich-
iiKind. Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs contribute
to this agency, and they all cooperate to
make life more worthwhile in a very
crowded neighborhood.

Marjorie Smith Zengel has two daughters
15 and 12, and one son, 9. Her newest
undertaking is a return to student life;
she takes courses in Latin American Studies
Division of Tulane. She says it is awfully
hard "to reacquire classroom manners and
not burst into speech until recognized!"
Marjorie's hobby is water-skiing!

Elizabeth Collier Wardle occasionally sees
Anne Corhitt Little in Atlanta. Lib has a
15 year old daughter who is giving her
grey hairs learning to drive, and a very
athletic 12 year old son, and a 10 year old
son who is "into everything!" Her husband
is assistant to the vice president in charge
of finance for the Georgia Power Co.

Nancy Hotchkiss Boschen really has a
tale to tell. She turns me pale, envious
green with reports of a trip to Turkey,
where she developed a great enthusiasm
for the country, and another to Honolulu,
revisiting scenes she loved. Nancy is a
Mariner leader, skiis and bowls in the win-
ter, and sails in the summer. Her greatest
satisfaction comes from her work as occu-
pational therapy aide, where, as you all
know, she is helping others learn to help
themselves. I forgot to mention a little
matter of three children, who I'm sure are
not neglected.

Jane Morrison Moore is chiefly interested
in a nice family of four children, 16, 13,
10 and 3, but she and her laywer-husband
are planning a pleasant escape in April
when they will tour England and Scotland.
Jane hears from Nancy Btilzner Leavell
and Betty Clapp Robinson and met Vir-
ginia Broun Larsen at a judicial conference
a year ago.

Helen Hanson Bamford enclosed a news-
photo of the Toledo Club, and there she
was with that wonderful smile and those
snapping dark eyes! I could just hear her
saying, "O — li — o!" or whatever that yodel
of hers used to be. Her daughter, age 8,
is learning to skate with mama as teacher
for her and her gang. Helen can't get
used to the giggling girls after all those
boys !

Mary Krone is certainly impressive as
a commissioner of the Ci\'il Ser\ice Com-
mission of the State of New York. I know
she works awfully hard as we have tried
to get her to our local alumnae meetings,
and she is often busy. Last summer Mary
took a trip around the world, 24,000 miles
by air. These lucky people.

Judy Dattgherty Mussier's news is that
her 15 year old daughter is going to Dobbs
for her junior year next September. I hope
to catch a glimpse of Judy because Miss
Masters' School in Dobbs Ferry is about
two blocks from my house.

Sis Bailey Hesseltine is busy at hospital
volunteer work, and church and club work.
Last winter she and her husband had a
trip to Cuba and Guatemala. Last summer
her 15 year old daughter and she drove
to California on a se\"en weeks' trip — "a
wonderful experience! " Joanne, the daugh-
ter, is at Dana Hall. Sis reports Mary Ann
Page Guyol works for the League of Wom-
en Voters in Washington.

Al/iiHiiae News

Marite Stephens Sheridan has three chil-
dren, 12, 15 and 17, and this year a 17
year old boy from .Spain is living; with them
and attending the local hij;h school. It is
part of the American Friends .Service proj-
ect. Marite says the brunet adds a great
deal of interest to their blond family.

Rebecca Slrude Lee's daughter. Brownie,
is a freshman at Sweet Briar this year, and
is doing extremely well.

Lib Schtiur Maxwell has found the per-
fect job, interestin.n and only a block from
her home. She is Executive Secretary of
the Parents League of New '^'ork. Associate
members are schools and colleges (S. B. C.
belongs). Lib sees Sue Fe/ider Miller often
when Sue comes to N. Y. C. on a buying
trip for her exclusive dress shop The Geor-
gian Room in Martinsville, Va. Lib also
saw Mary Lewis Nelson Becker recently
when she came to N. Y. on a "show train."
Helen Clossoit Hendricks' daughter loves
her first year at S. B. C.

Betty Colter Clark reports the thing that
gives her the greatest satisfaction is to get
her two-year-old daughter in bed every
night ! Betty's other children are boys, two
of them in college and one at Culver! She
.saw Elsa CersUcker Allen last year when
she was in California, and also Jo Fink
Meeks.

Jo has 4 children, three girls and a boy
ranging from 5 to 17. Brownies are sched-
uled for every Wednesday, 18 of them! Jo
teaches Sunday School and is a deaconess in
her church. At the time she wrote she was
preparing a paper on underwater explora-
tion. This class of ours!

Lib Mii)field Chapman says the thing she
enjoys most is the rare moment when she
gets a chance to stay home and mind her
own business. She reports a nice West-
chester S. B. Day, which I missed because
of a skiing trip.

Tinka Slr.iuis Solmssen has 4 daughters,
occupied from Connecticut College to kin-
dergarten. She claims she is always behind
schedule, but "life is very full and beauti-
ful." What more could one ask?

Dorothy Hutchinson Howe says they have
just built a new house and that like middle-
aged parents of a first child they are sure
that no one has ever been so clever or
creative! The house sounds beautiful. After
living for 16 years in a New England colo-
nial they are thrilled to find that a contem-
porary design meets all their functional
and aesthetic requirements. I can testify
further that Dec has three charming and
talented children.

Surprise, surprise! I heard from Connie
Buiteell ^"hite, now in Denver, where she
and her husband ha\e their own public re-
lations firm. They number among their
clients the Aspen Music Festival and
School, Denver Society for Crippled Chil-
dren, LI. S. National Bank, etc. She is
working hard but loving it.

Another pleasant surprize — Anna Perkins
Yoiing Adams from Dallas, where she has
built a mi>dern house. Her works are in
D. A. R., Symphony Orchestra, and spon-
soring pre-teen mineral study club. Her
h( bbies are golf and Theatre '57. She has
a daughter graduating from Hockaday this
year who will enter Oklahoma L',, where
"Perk " graduated. Another daughter is in
the 5th grade. Perk tells us Estelle Fjriss
Marsh of Amarillo has 3 boys.

Margaret Ron Ellice is also a traveler.

lia\ ing been in England for the L'. S. elec-
tion and the Suez crisis (immediate, not
that it isn't still) and going from there to
Italy. She has a daughter in Abbot Acadcjiiy
and sees Dot B.irnuni Venter, '.^5, on trips
to the school. They got together with Emily
Marsh Nichols, who is working at Grace
New Haven Hospital. Margaret is Red
Cro.ss Staff Aide in the Records Room of
her local medical center.

Mary Alosts Lindsey was in N. Y. C.
in December and hollered at me after a
theatre and I didn't hear her! I can still
hear that wonderful laugh, and I'm so
sorry I missed her. She has } daughters,
1.^, K and 6 and says the teen stage is
something! Church and school take up
Mary's time, and hunting currently takes
up her husband's! The quail season is on.

Charlotte Lee Lauck leads a busy life,
working as secretary in the English Dept.
at L', of Va.. also for the Chaplain to
Episcopal students. She has a son in his
last year in Civil Engineering at Cornell,
a daughter at St. Anne's in Charlottesvillc
and a 15 year old at Woodberry Forest
and a girl 11 in Venable School.

Dot Turno Gardner moved to Palo Alto
3 years ago and finds Western life and
climate to her liking. Two daughters in
junior high with attendant activities and
her own Scout work fill her days. At S. B.
Day in San Francisco she saw Charlotte
Ohnstead Gill, '35, and Emily Denton
Tunis, '33.

Kitty Means Neely is on Red Cross
board as secretary and in the motor service
and. living near Camp Kilmer, is involved
with the Hungarian relief program. She
has two daughters 1 6 and 1 3, one of whom
plans to go to Sweet Briar. Kitty is prob-
ably on a Caribbean cruise by the time you
read this. She points out that "our 25th is
only two years away, not a bit too soon to
start dieting!"

I had a nice Christmas letter from Mary
Moore Rowe telling of her 3 boys, all of
whom are now in school, Mary is playing
the piano again with the oldest boy, claims
she is no good, but we know better.

Virginia Foster Gruen is already writini;
letters drumming up interest in our 2 5th.
She is active in her son's school association
and in the Children s Museum in Indian-
apolis. Has also helped raise S2.30() for
Hungarian relief. She reports that Jean
Lydecker Roberts lives in Cleveland, has a
son at Colgate who is getting married in
June! Virginia hears from Eleanor Filch
\X'elch who is working in St. Petersburg,
Florida,

Betty Siitlle Briscoe says if telepathy
means anything, some of us should have
stirred restlessly in our sleep as she wrote
for the Fund into the wee, small hours.
She is "convinced of the importance of the
Fund to the Crilege and of the necessity
for Sweet Briar alumnae not to be found
wanting in this respect. " Betty and her
family had a marvelous time at a dude
ranch last year, and this fall moved into
a new house.

I have saved Helen Hofjecker Roehm's
reply for the last, not for any reason other
than I thought it was a particularly in-
spiring one to end on, one which may
help us all for some time to come. "My
conclusion is that if each of us would
ask ourselves that question (what has given
you the most satisfaction?) often enough,

we would all be stimulated to greater effort
on behalf of our fellow man and the ful-
fillment of our own lives. For me. it is
the fact that for the first time in a number
of years I have attained a certain "serenity"
in the acceptance of my 6 year old daugh-
ter's handicap and a hope for the future
which has stimulated the desire to find out
just tfhat can be done to help others and
to get out and help do it." Helen's husband
has a physical handicap, and she has been
putting in some difficult years. We all wish
her well in the near future and are grateful
to her for her unselfish attitude.

I have been practically terse with most
of your news, but I was thrilled to have so
much to cut down. Best to everybody.

Alumnae like The HISTORY
Ruth Myers Pleasants, '34, writes: "The
book is great," and Mary Pringle also '34
adds, "I certainly enjoyed reading the
book. I'm proud to be in the same class
as Martha Lou."

1935

President: ELIZABETH JOHNSTON (Mrs.

Warren W. Clute, Ir.), Watkins Glenn,

N. Y,

Secretary: Anne Baker (Mrs. Howard

L. Gerhart), Vineyard Dr., Rt. 5, Gibsonia.

Pi.

Fund Agent: JuLiET Halliburton (Mrs.

Oscar W. Burnett), 1910 Lafayette Ave.,

Greensboro, N. C.

I know that you all will be sorry to
hear of the death last November of Betty
Thompson Reif's husband, Ernest. He was
a fine man and his going is a great loss to
his community as well as to his family.
Betty spoke so beautifully of the wonderful
comfort her children, a girl at the L'niver-
sity of Michigan, and a boy at Mercerville
Academy, have been to her. Our love and
thoughts are with you. Betty.

Judy Halliburton Burnett has a quiet
house with her daughter a freshman at
Converse College and her son a junior at
Episcopal High School.

Barbara Benzinger Lindsley writes of sit-
ting next to Doris Crane Loveland at a
cajiip horse show in Colorado. What a
coincidence that Doris' son .Salty and Bar-
bara's son Bart were attending the same
camp. Barbara also had a trip East last
summer, business, pleasure and looking at
colleges.

Roberta Cope Gerlach tells of finishing
their Cape Cod home in Boston, tutoring
in Latin and French, and she comments
on the full social life of her daughters,
7 and 11,

Rusty writes that they have bought a
lot near Interlochen, the National Music
Camp in Michigan. John, her eldest son,
hopes to attend soon. \i'e will be practi-
cally neighbors in the summertime.

Betty Aiyers Harding and Ken had their
Caribbean cruise at Christmas time, but are
back to the mundane things of life once
more.

Howard (my husband) and son Peter
flew to Florida for a week's vacation:
they called the other night during a bliz-
zard and told of sunshine and 75° tem-
peratures. Howard leaves for Europe in
March-all business this time, but I'd love
to go with him ! Instead Im returning to
Milwaukee for a short visit with family
and friends.

Spring 1957

1936

PnsiJeni: Frances W. Gregory, West-
hampton College, University of Richmond,
Va.

Secretaries: Fran Baker (Mrs. John K.
Owen), II Elniwood Road, Baltimore 10,
Md. Marquart Powell (Mrs. Harrison
P. Doty), 2030 Hill St., Ann Arbor, Mich.
Fiiiiii Agent: Annette Harley (Mrs.
Joseph Chappell), 425 St. Lawrence Dr.,
Silver Spring, Md.

Most of us are going full tilt in the
winter whirl, so maybe it will give you a
twinge of nostalgia to hear last summer's
news. From the Richmond group; Kitty
Lorr.iiiie Hyde's Janet, 13, went to Merrie-
VCood Camp in Sapphire, N. C. Kitty,
husband Frank Taylor, daughter Terry
and scins Terry and Brad spent several
week-ends at Va. Beach. Logan Phinizy
Johis was near Greenville last summer and
saw Ruth Rohinsuii and Mary Lee Poiii-
dexler and their husbands. They all tried
to look up Fuzzy Taylor but never made
connections. Logan is president of the
board of the Memorial Foundation,' a
home for the study and treatment of emo-
tionally disturbed children. Good for her!
Maria Gray I 'aUntnie Curtis, husband Ted
and children Calvin, Teddy, and Louise
went to Bernardsville, N. J., in July and
to Virginia Beach for a long week-end. Our
sympathy goes to the family of Wilfred
Gocdwyn, husband of Elizabeth Lee Val-
entine and brother of Lydia, in 'Wilfred's
untimely death this past summer.

Pinkie and Fred Scott were away the last
part of August picking up their youngest
son from his N. H. camp, visiting friends
near there and in Canada, and winding up
with a long week-end in Bay Head, N. J.
Pinkie saw Rose Hyde Fales at Squam Lake,
N. J., looking younger and handsomer
than ever. Pinkie. Stumpy, Logan, Jackie
Moore and Kitty Hyde lunched together
in Richmond this past summer. Stumpy
and daughter Peggy spent three weeks with
Pinkie at Bundoran Farm in June and July,
and according to Pinkie, Peggy is a cute
little blonde and very intelligent. Stumpy
later visited in Baltimore and spent August
at Virginia Beach with her mother. Alva
Root Bound was in lovely old Edgartown,
on Martha's Vineyard. (I envy her the
surroundings and also the possible chance
at a curly maple sideboard which a friend
of mine saw there marked "sold. " Yes,
that delightful disease, antique-hunting,
afflicts more of us all the time!)

Dottie Bmch Bagg has lived for 19 years
in the great paper city of Holyoke, Mass.,
where her husband is treasurer and assistant
superintendent of the Parsons Paper Co,
She says, "At the moment Ranee, age 11,
is recovering from a broken arm and Terry,
Jr., age 9, is wondering how he can do
same to get his share of attention. My
three men are keeping me in shape fishing,
camping, skiing, etc. My best to all the
gals in '36."

Alice Benel Hopkins writes that son
Christie is a 200 lb. junior in high school,
playing football every game with model
shipbuilding on week-ends. Alice is in
junior high with many interests. Husband
Porscher is busy with Marine Reserves and
golf, his principal non-business interests.
Alice saw ■\X'arwick R«r/ Brown and family

at Kanuga. Bob is Bishop of Arkansaw
and their 'W'ickie is a freshman at \>.'t:\-
lesley.

Nancy Braniell Holderness is the same
pretty whirlwind, I can report from per-
sonal observation. John and I spent two
wonderful days in Tarboro on our way to
Boca Raton, Florida, early in December to
the Southern Surgical Meeting. Between
parties we caught up on news, and I can
only say that there isn't a busier, happier
person anywhere than our Nancy. Her
wonderful five children have their parents'
warm personalities and charm, and the
Holderness household is the center of fun
for all ages. Heard from another dynamo
at Christmas, Connie Warutr McElhinney
who with her husband and three children
is having the time of her life hunting in
the beautiful countryside near their "Comer-
stone Farm," Leesburg, Va. Their card
showed a sketch of Connie and the two
girls taking the jumps while her husband
took out the dogs and son Paul fondled
one of his beloved guns.

Our Baltimore alumnae chapter had a
very enjoyable Christmas tea with 106
attending, including prospective students.
Miss Jean 'Williams was our honor guest.
Everyone is busy these days, but do write
me news. Love,

Fran

Dear Ladies:

I sent out 140 cards this time. Thirty of
you responded speedily, so here goes.
Anne Parr Foot wants to know if she is the
first grandmother in our class. Her 19 year
old daughter was married on Sept. 3, 195'),
and had a son on June 3, 1956. Her son
John Winslow is in his last year at school
and may come to America for a short visit
in the summer before beginning his national
service. Anne says that apart from these
two items she leads a secluded country life
in England. Peg Campbell L'sher says she
lives in the same old suburban rut. All
their vacations are spent in Annisquam,
Mass., where they have a home. Her daugh-
ter Susan is a day student at the Masters
School in Dobbs Ferry. She is in the eighth
grade. She wrote that Peg Lloyd Bush and
her family have been taking turns having
the mumps. Hope the turns are over by
now. Peg herself wrote that she has grad-
uated from the Junior League. Some of
these statistics are aging me fast.

Orissa Holden Perry has a brand new son
born late in October. His name is Gurden.
She also has a two year old, Walter IIL
The Perry's are going to move the first
of May into a wonderful old house on the
harbor in Southport, Conn. It was built
in 1830 by the first Gurden Perry and has
been in the family ever since. Emily Boiren
Muller, whom I enjoyed seeing at reunion
in June, writes that Susan-Emily is seven
this year and a Brownie. Emily is a Brownie
leader and enjoying it. Her son Chip, 9,
is a Cub Scout. Drum lessons for him,
ballet for Susan-Emily, church activities
for all of them keep the Mullers busy.

One of you Lynchburg ladies sent me a
perfectly fascinating card, completely blank.
Not even an initial to provide a clue.
Martha Anne Harvey Gwinn's daughter
Anne, who is a senior at Sweet Briar, will
be married soon after graduation. L'ncle
Sam has designs on the groom. Martha
Anne wants to know if this will make her

the first "baby" in our class to graduate
fro)ii Sweet Briar and also the first bride.
I think we will have to assemble some of
these statistics for the next issue. Peg
Huxley Dick's card really has me reeling.
Peg has two married sons and is expecting
her fifth grandchild in June. I don't believe
any one can top that. Her 18 year old
Carroll is at Lake Pine College in Pains-
ville, Ohio. Her other daughter, Harriet,
16, is at St. Catherine's in Richmond.
Young Ned, 9, is home alone and having
a wonderful time. Arnie Snsong Jones and
three of her five visited Peg last summer.
She sees Chickie Gregory when she is in
Richmond. Peg heard from Cabby Mitchell
at Christmas. Cabby's son Sparky is in his
last year at high school and wants to be a
surgeon. Cabby herself wrote that she saw
Cile Porter Piplar a couple of months ago
for the first time in over 20 years. Cile is as
attractive as ever but with very short hair.
She lives in Memphis but was in St. Louis
for a real estate convention. Cabby is bu.sy
with children and civic programs. She be-
longs to a ladies' investment syndicate
which she says is lots of fun. It sounds
fascinating to me. I'd like to know more
about it. Esther O'Brian Robinson also
heard from Cabby at Christmas. Says Cabby
reported temperature was 30 below zero
and three feet of snow. Sounds cold to me.
Tillie has an interior design and decoration
business which is thriving. Her son Johnny
is 15 and a sophomore at Concord (Mass.)
high school. Towle is still with Westing-
house in Boston. La Donahue is serving
her fifth year as a den mother. Her two
older sons are Eagle Scouts. She hopes to
go to Swarthmore for Jin's class reunion
in June and also Atlantic City for Inter-
national Kiwanis Convention. Last summer
they took the boys west. They saw Dodie
BurriU Walker in San Francisco. La reports
she is active in Y. W. work and Children's
Theatre in addition to the usual house-
keeping duties. I saw Muggy Gregory
Cukor at reunion in June and we had a
fine time catching up. Muggy works long
and hard for the S. B. Club in New York.
She is also busy with church work and has
sponsored a Hungarian family. She has one
son, Gregory. Katie Niles Parker's son
David is a freshman at Wesleyan. daughter
Anne has one more year in high school.
Katie doesn't think she will go to Sweet
Briar. Tony and John are in 9th and 5th
grades, respectively. Louise Damgard Eichel-
kraut wrote they had just returned from a
visit to the west coast where they visited
daughter Lynn who is in her second year at
Stanford L'niversity. She missed reunion
last year because of a party to announce
Lynn's engagement. Louise, Mary Virginia
Camp Smith and Marjorie 'Wing Todd all
wrote me the tragic news about Yvonne
Dekker Boomsliter. On the evening of
June 13th, Yvonne complained of feeling
dizzy. She lay down and was gone almost
immediately. She was buried in Norfolk,
Virginia, her birthplace, on the 17th. Be-
sides her husband, she leaves three small
daughters, Paula Elise 7. Ann Dekker 5.
and Sara Ransome 2. I am sure that we are
all saddened and shocked by this news. I
have written her husband to express the
sympathy of the class.

Mary Virginia says her life is just pro-
ceeding along the same old channels. Mar-
jorie irVw.^ Todd has three children in

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school and a 2 1 -month old baby at home.
Her life is understandably busy. Pinkie
writes they are off to Florida for two weeks.
They have had the coldest weather in years
in Virginia. Pinkie says their 8 acre lake
froze completely over and they all had a
wonderful time ice skating. Polly R'n-h
Wiles has been working for her husband
for several years. Has just stopped but still
doesn't know what it is like to be a lady
of lesiure as the first two weeks away from
the office were spent on jury duty. Now
she hopes to have a breather. Alma M.ii/hi
Rotnem wants us all to send for Lou Lem-
mi>n Stohlman's "History of Sweet Briar."
She says it is fascinating and has over 90
pictures. Alma is doing the promotion for
it. I have sent for my copy. Mary Lee
Poindexur's daughter, Eleanor Willingham,
was married on June 5 to Harold Powell.
All of the attendants at Mary's wedding
except Lib Morton and Fuzzy Taylor were
there. They all reported it was a beautiful
wedding with a beautiful bride. Chloe
Frierson wrote about the wedding this
time. Next time she says she will report
on her brood of four. Jane Sbeltoii Wil-
liams says Chloe is streamlined and as
beautiful as ever. Jane says Mary Lee
looked more like the bride's sister than her
mother. Ruth Robinson Madison also re-
ported on the wedding. Dorothea McClure
Mountain says they moved into a new home
last summer. Her 13 year old daughter
enjoys the recreation room immensely.
Dorothea, brave girl, has a Girl Scout
troop of 14 thirteen year olds. Margaret
Rubtilson Dcnsmore has a part time job
at the Belmont Hill School in Belmont,
Mass. She works in the library. Her daugh-
ter Caroline is spending her junior year
abroad in Florence, Italy. The boys (she
didn't say how many there were) are at
Belmont Hill School and are hockey enthus-
iasts. Callie Furniss Wolfe says she ran
into Alice Benet Hopkins in Rich's. Says
Alice hasn't changed a bit. Callie's son
John will be going to college next year and
hasn't made his choice yet. Stumpy is
teaching at Collegiate School for Boys in
New York City. It is a job she had 10
years ago and one that she finds as delight-
ful as ever. Her child Peggy is devine. but
growing up too. Nancy Pjrsons Jones,
husband and children visited Stumpy. The
Jones are all going to Honolulu this sum-
mer. George-Ann ].icksou Slocum writes
from Beacon, New '^'ork, that they have
had lots of snow but all are avid skiers.
The Slocums have three children, two of
whom are twins. George-Ann says the
Sweet Briar benefit "Happy Hunting" was
lots of fun and a great success. Lucille
Cox savs she is having a thrilling year
teaching Latin to four classes at the E. C.
Glass High School in Lynchburg. She had
a summer's study in Greece.

Mary Agnes Young Turner also had
tragic news to report. Her husband died
on June 2"itli with no warning at all. She
is left with two little boys, one nearly 3
and the other 13 months. After her hus-
band's death, Mary Agnes moved to a
smaller house at 5931 Anniston Road in
Bethesda, Maryland. Her mother is with
her. I know we all send our deepest
sympathy to Mar)' Agnes.

There seems to be a slight mix-up. At
reunion we were told to choose a class
secretary. I seem to be it. A note from

Fran B.iker Owen says she was under the
impression she had the job until June 1957.
So if you find two letters in this issue or
things .seem confused, you will understand
why. Fran has four children, is a den
mother, and indulges in all the usual
activities of mothers of four. The most
important news item in the Doty family
is of course our move. Ford International
closed its New York office and moved the
division bag and baggage to Dearborn. I
don't know whether we come under the
title of bag or baggage, but we are in Ann
Arbor. My husband drives 35 miles to his
office every day but as it takes him about
the same length of time that it did to get
to New York from New Rochelle, the
mechanics of our day are about the same.
None of us had ever been in the mid-west
before so it was quite an upheaval. My
son, Leete, almost 17, is at Berkshire
School in Sheffield, Mass. My daughter
Barbara is a 9th grader at Kent Place
School in Summit, New Jersey. Sonia is
a 7th grader at Tappan Junior High School
here, Marquart is in the second grade at
Angell School. I was lucky enough to get
a part-time job even though we arrived
late. Two days after we arrived in Ann
Arbor I started teaching French at Angell
School. I have about 90 children divided
into three groups of 4th, 5th and 6th
graders. I enjoy the work very much. I do
miss my adult classes, though. During my
first week here a child asked me if I knew
a certain person. I said no, that I had only
been in Ann Arbor a few days. There was
a gasp from the whole class and they ex-
claimed "But how did you learn English
so quickly?" Our move was complicated
by having to get the children who were
left in the East settled in their respective
schools. About a week before I planned
to come out here to look for a house, Sonia
broke her ankle while on a visit to her
grandmother in Pennsylvania. At last in
mid-November we set out in two cars to
drive from New Rochelle to Ann Arbor.
I do not advise trying to move and settle
between Thanksgiving and Christmas. We
are gradually making progress in all direc-
tions. I hope by the next issue of the News
that all will be running smoothly. I will try
to get the cards out a little sooner.

The following are lost. Who can help?
Mary Knapp (Mrs. George David Thes-
quiere). Catherine Ohiheim (Mrs. Howard
Heni7). Audrey Joyce Allen. Dorothy
Hellen Allison. Mrs. Jo. Corwin Tartt.
Janet Barnes Gilman (Mrs. Robert A.).
Jean Claire Bird (Mrs. Leslie Earle
Antonius), Myra Bridges (Mrs. William
Cirecr). Katherine Broughton (Mrs. John
Shannon). Harriet Butler (Mrs. Thomas
A. Stevenson). Ruth Copeman (Mrs. Gil-
bert Ronstadt). Elizabeth Cox (Mrs.
George Schmidt, Jr.). Anna de Grafi' (Mrs.
William 'VCood Cross). Helen Finley. Jane
Fox (Mrs. Truman Dodson I'V). Priscilla
Grainger (Mrs. Adair Mackay. Jr.). Doro-
thy Harper (Mrs. Henry Bridges). Eliza-
beth Hartridge. Harriet Hicok. Martha
Hornor (Mrs. J. Brent Maxwell). Virginia
Kingsberry (Mrs. I. B. Hale). Eleanor
Krekeler (Mrs. Allan Christian). Marian
I-ilygren (Mrs. Henry Farrell). Jean Luce.
lane Marquardt (Mrs. Norman Murphy).
Louise McDonald (Mrs. "W'. L. Byerly, Jr.).
Dorothy Rauh (Mrs. John Collins Jackson).

Adelaide Saunders (Mrs. Douglas Westin).
Phyllis Teed (Mrs. Ferris B. Wafle).
Elizabeth Voigt (Mrs. Voigt Quarlcs).
Mary Wilson (Mrs. Robert Richards).

1937

Secretary: Dorothy Proi;t (Mrs. Robert
W. Gorsuch), Kings Highway, Chapel
Hill, Atlantic Highlands, N. J.
riind Agent: Rosalie Hall (Mrs. Rosalie
Hall Cramer), 75 Roxbury Rd., Garden
City, Long Island, N. Y.

Your response to our request for news
has been terrific. I've had such fun reading
your cards, and now the time has come to
share them. But before I do, I would like
to say how deeply moved 1 was by the
beautiful tribute paid to Terry Shaiv Mc-
Curdy by Miss Lucas in the November
All'MNAE News. Because of Terry's un-
selfish contribution of her time and many
talents to Sweet Briar and the lives of
others, we are truly inspired and proud
that she was one of us.

Of the twenty-two replies, fifteen gals
are planning to return for our twentieth.
Each day more cards come in but I must
get this to Jackie in time to go to press.
Remember, we have only one twentieth
reunion — and let's make it a real roundup.
At the end of the letter I will give you
the names of the gals who are definitely
coming, not coming, and non-committal,
those we have not heard from and several
whose addresses are unknown.

Lollie Redfern Ferguson writes of her
activities in the Children's Theater in Nor-
folk and their production of "The Travel-
ling Musicians" in February. How nice
her talents, which were well-known at
S. B., are now giving pleasure to .so many.
Her daughter, Anne, is now twelve and
is two inches taller than her mama. She
hopes Sizzy Johnson Finley will be back
on campus with her in June. Jane Collins
Corwin is in Germany and will return too
late to be with us. Incidentally, June will
be Lollie's sister's tenth reunion at S. B.

Anne Ljuman Bussey is working on plans
for a baby sitter for her eight year old
daughter and seven year old son so she can
be with us. She and her family have travel-
led a great deal but have been in Arlington,
Va.. for the last three years. Betty Willi.inis
Allison has had her share of travelling,
too. Her family, including four children,
Betsy 10, Jimmy 8, Mary 7, Josephine 5,
spent last summer on a dude ranch in
Montana. Next summer they plan to go to
Spain and southern France and Italy. Vl'hen
hi^me, she is active in Junior League work,
her church and hospital auxiliary.

Our buttons are really bursting with pride
over Ellie Snodgr.iss Park. Ellie has been
appointed Assistant U. S. Attorney for the
District of Columbia, assigned to the Civil
Division. She writes that her work is fasci-
nating but that it keeps her busy along
with her thirteen year old son. Houston.
He's a typical teen-ager, according to Ellie,
con.stantly on the phone and "rocking and
rolling."

Becky Douglass Mapp and her hu.sband
have just returned from a two weeks' trip
to Mexico — mostly Acapulco. where they
enjoyed the swimming and fishing. Her
three girls. Mildred 1-4, Margaret 11, and
Carolyn 9, keep her involved in many

Spring 1957

activities. Peggy Cruikshank Dyer liad her
fifth child last July, a daughter, who is the
|oy of their lives. They are now living in
Marion. Mass. Her oldest is Mary 14.
Julie l.V Tinimy S. and Nancy 6.

May M'eslun Thompson is looking for-
ward to S. B. in June, along with Bobby
Jjnis, maybe. May and Bart recently spent
the weekend at Skytop. where they went
for their honeymoon.

Lil Ljmherl Pennington has been living
in Thomasville, N. C, for the past nine-
teen years and has run the gamut of civic
jobs. At present she is President of the
NX'oiiian's Club which is the civic and
social center of the town. Her son, Neiland,
is now a Fourth Form (Soph.) student at
Woodberry Forest School. Bring back
memories, girls? She and Polly Lambeth
Blackwell will be on hand at S. B. and
hope Marie W'.ilker Gregory and Agnes
Ci\nvjurti Bates will come too. Polly has
three girls and they have moved into a
newly purchased house and are having all
the fun of decorating and landscaping.
Marie is active in Garden Club work,
church activities and taking care of young
John Gregory.

Had a nice letter from Helen }Y'illijm-
sr/ii Dumont. Her most important news is
of her husband, Wayne, who is running
in the April primary of N. J. for the
nomination for Governor on the Republican
ticket. Being a native of N. J., I naturally
have read a great deal about Wayne. He
has a wonderful record and is well quali-
fied to be Governor. Last September, Helen,
Wayne and their fifteen year old son, Hunt,
had a wonderful vacation in the Canadian
Rockies.

Dottie Piice Roberts has a six-foot-one
son, Scott, now fourteen and a daughter 10,
named Jeannie. She hopes to make Reunion
"while she can still make it under her own
power" — me too. Nat Hopkiiu Griggs
plans to be on campus with Dottie and
Isabel Olmslead Haynes. Nat's three chil-
dren, Eleanor 12, Shirley 10, and John 7,
keep her stepping along with church and
Junior League work.

All the above gals, including Peter Dyer
Sorenson and me, expect to be at S. B, in
June. If all plans work out, this should
be the best turnout we ever had.

There are three gals who have responded
with news but have not said whether or
not they will be on hand for Reunion.
Our hats off to Lee Hjll Cramer who has
done a magnificent job as Fund agent for
our class. Through her efforts we have
increased the number of contributors and
also the amount contributed. Her daughter.
Kathie. is away at boarding school while
Lee keeps busy with her job and running
her home. Kate Shafjer Hardy has one
child asvay at school and two at home. Her
days are taken up with familiar activities —
Junior League, swimming, golf, art lessons,
and taking care of her family. Anna Mary
C/j.iiles Straub is busy with Scouts. P. T. A.,
Junior League and her three children, Pam
14. Jakie 10. and Christopher 3-

You will all be disappointed to learn
of the four who cannot be with us in June.
Molly Crt/ber Stoddart is working for her
M. A. at the University of Pa. and will
be up to her ears in exams when we
are enjoying ourselves. Maggie Curnwell
Schmidt and her daughter Ruthie. now 13.
are planning to sail for Europe on June

18. Maggie loves her job as advisor for a
class of sixteen-year olds at John Bur-
roughs .School in St. Louis. Jackie Cuchun
Nicholson is very disappointed not to be
able to he with us but hopes anyone coming
through Alexandria, Va., will stop to see
her. She and Chink have a son, Jackie. Jr.,
who is fourteen and a daughter, Elizabeth,
now four years old. Libby Lee McPhail
can't make Reunion. Our best to her and
her family which includes Freddy 10, and
Betsy 4.

Can you help us on some Lost addresses?
If so, write the Alumnae Office at S. B.
We want to locate Gurley Ciirler Davis,
Griselda Derii/ger Plater, Peggy Minder
Davis, Helen Neie.

Those we have had no news from or
liboiil are as follows: Elizabeth BM Fensom,
Janet Bogite Trimble. Margaret Bradley
Forsyth, Nina Caulhorn Jarvis, Martha
Clark. Kathleen Eshlemaii Maginnis, Jr.,
Mary Freaiiff Klein, Lucy Gore. Faith Gorl
Herpers, Virginia Hardin. Frances Kemp
Pettyjohn. Jr., Sara Kiripa/r/ek Fearing,
Anne Letiimoii, Margaret Leini. Margaret
MaeRay Jackson, Barbara Miiiiii Green, Jr.,
Nancy Nalle Lea. Eddina Netfby Adams,
Helen Rae Wainwnght, III, Ruth Rniidle
Charters, Margaret Sandidge. Elizabeth
Sicard Sita, Dorothy Sleirart, Elinor Ward
Francis, Jr.

Peter Dyer Sorenson's oldest daughter,
Alicia, graduates this year but Peter will
be able to make S. B. after the graduation
and before she is due to arrive in Mass.
for her son's festivities. Last fall I went
to Maplewcod and enjoyed seeing some
S. B. gals at the final development program
roundup. Like the rest of you I find there
are not enough hours in the day to keep
up with the "musts" of the modern "home
executive" but it's fun along with the hard
work. I know you all must feel as I do,
eternally grateful to Sweet Briar for pre-
paring us so well for our particular roles.

I hope to write to the gals I have not
heard from, hoping to stimulate some in-
terest in Reunion. It will be so wonderful
to "turn back the clocks, " get back in fiat
shoes, and show the class of '57 that there's
plenty of life left in the '37ners. See you
in June!

1939

President: JuLiE Sanders (Mrs. Richard
A. Michaux), 4502 Dover Road, Rich-
mond 21, 'Va.

Secretary: Jean Oliver (Mrs. E. Alton
Sartcr, Jr.), 546 Unadilla Street, Shreve-
port, La.

Fund Aeenls: Mary Elizabeth Barge
(Mrs. William H. Schroder, Jr.), 2628
Habersham Road, Atlanta, Ga.; Sarah
Belk (Mrs. Charles G. Gambrell), 125 E.
S4th Street, Apt. 6-A, New York, N.Y.

Some of my fall deluge of news arrived
too late at the time, so we will catch up
now. Henny Collier Armstrong happily re-
ported her marriage October 24 to Dr.
Darrell Ayer. They will continue to live
in Henny's hojiie-town. Atlanta, Georgia.
Much happiness, Henny !

Mardie Hodill Smith in Ohio wrote that
she had a terrific fall from a horse on May
13 — "Mc-ther's Day yet!" and had 6 pelvic
breaks. After much time spent flat on her
(aching!) back, she was learning to walk

again. Hope the recovery is complete by
now.

Elizabeth Perjkius Prothro broke a long
silence from Wichita Falls, Texas and said,
"With 4 children and a few club activities,
I do everything except write letters. " She
and Charles took all 4 children to Sun
Valley for 10 days in August. Son Joe is
a freshman at Stanford, and Kay has her
heart set on S. B. C. next year (is this our
first class child to come "home"?).

Ruth Harmon Keiser's active family in
Princeton, N. J., seem to be the sporty type.
The 3 children. 4, 9, and 10, enjoyed swim-
ming and sailing in N. H. last summer,
and Ruth barely missed Boot Vanderbilt
Brown, but caught a glimpse of Anne
Benedict Swain.

Peggy Roper Willis in Denver has A
children ("8th grade to kindergarten"),
canning, sewing, church, P. T. A. and
club work to help keep her busy.

Julie Sanders Michaux in Richmond had
the tea for current S. B. C. students in
September and then plunged into the tough
job of being Women's Chairman of the
Community Chest Drive.

Yvonne Leggett Dyer headquartered in
Bronxville all summer, but "tooted off to
Nantucket, N. H., and Long Island — good
enough to repeat in "57." She saw Lew
Griffith, '38, at a hat shoppe on the Thruway
in N. H. Lew and her dentist husband
run a camp and had been interviewing
counsellors in N. Y. C. Another "It's a
small world "-er has been Lee Montague
Joachim who saw Kitty Lauder Stephenson
in Miami last winter, where Kitty's small
daughter Nan delighted the guests by sing-
ing with the orchestra (unbeknownst to
mama!). Lee saw Patty Bah Vincent while
both were visiting in Charlottesville last
summer. Patty wrote she also saw Ann
Cauthorn in June. Lee took her daughter
to see S. B. C, and Lee loved her first visit
back in 17 years. Her daughter hopes to
attend in 1959.

Betty Frazier Rinehart partly escaped a
hot summer in Tulsa with a trip to Canada
and then on to Washington, D. C, where
she lunched with Happy James Wathen
and Jean McKenny Stoddard. Janet Thorpe
also had lunch one day with Jean. As of
early November, Jean, Johnny, and their 4
children were leaving for a 2 year stay in
Florence, Italy, where Johnny is on State
Department duty. Janet has had a long
siege of illness, but is back at work again
now. Janet rates tops for the amount of
news on a postcard ! She also reported Jean
Moore von Sternberg has moved out to
Arcadia. California; could that be near
Susette Botilell McLeod's new address of
La Jolla? Another who has "gone west" is
Phyllis Todd Ellis, now in Tacoma, Wash-
ington.

Betty Barnes Bird wrote from Germany
that after a year of it (courtesy of Uncle
Sam), "Housekeeping with a maid here is
10 times as complicated as without one at
home." She announces the arrival of
Richard Foster Bird on April 22, to make
a total of 3 boys and 1 girl. They vaca-
tioned in Switzerland and Italy, and hubby
William climbed the Matterhorn.

There was an interesting card from Mar-
guerite Myers Glenn way out in Long
Beach, Washington, in answer to my query
about the meaning of her home address,
Crangiiyma Farms. She writes, "To explaio

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the name of our farm (we just bought it
from my father this year)— Cran for cran-
berries, Guy (my father's name), yma (my
mother's name Amy). \X'e have 150 acres
of cranberries growing on the bog. ant! also
raspberries, blueberries, a rhododendron
and azalea nursery, and a cranberry proc-
e.ssing plant — enough to keep us and the •(
boys (including 14 months old Jonathan)
bu.sy."

A long newsy letter from Jane Micssiwy
Beauchamps tells of life in the Espanola
Valley, 20 miles from Los Alamos where
husband Richard works. Jane calls herself
a farmer's wife, and speaks of canning
fruits and vegetables derived from garden-
ing by irrigation. The drouth gave them
trouble though, but still they put up 5 tons
of hay. Sounds like more than enough for
the retired race horse and pony they own!
Jane is learning to ride side-saddle on a
saddle acquired from an old lady who can
remember Indian raids. The whole family
seems to enjoy hunting and fishing and
riding, and the horses, goat, chickens and
rabbit that make up the Beauchamps
ranchito of 5 acres.

There are a few more address changes —
people do get around ! Jean BLick De Land
is in Wilton, Conn.. Mary A\clii!ush Sherer
in Holden, Mass., 'Virginia Sissoii 'White
in Atlanta. Ga., Narcissa DilLmi Overstreet
in Charlottesville, Va., Shirley Hofjnuii
Lawrence in Pound Ridge, N. Y .. and
Shirley l(jin> Woodward to Orlando. Fla.
So attention S. B. C. Alumnae Clubs in
those spots!

Hope none of you ever get in a tough
circumstance of family illness as I was in
October and November with my father
seriously ill, but if you do, plan it so you
can be near Kitty Liuder Stephenson in
Greenville, S. C. She is a most kind and
gracious hostess, and has a charming home
and family on a mountain with a lovely
view. She brightened Thank.sgiving Day for
me, and otherwise made bearable a long
6 week stay near the hospital. We poured
over our senior year annual, and one of the
pleasures of being class secretary is know-
ing where our classmates live, and as much
about them as they will w-rite to me.
Keep me posted so I can write better class
letters.

1940

President: HnLF.N ScHMiD (Mrs William

H. Hardy), 27-iO L.ike Drive, S. E., Grand

Rapids 6, Mich.

Secretary: Muriel Barrows (Afrs. James

F. Neall). 29 Foxridge Rd., West Hartford,

Conn.

Fu)id Agent: HoRTENSE Powell (Mrs.

Prentice Cooper), Shelbyville, Tenn.

Draw near, all you who are tired of
freezing winds, zipping children into snow-
suits, and shoveling snow to keep your
forty-year old husbands from having a heart
attack — with which theory, incidentally.
Ike's doctor does nut agree — and read of
some of our friends who are in warm and
sunny climes.

From Biloxi. Mississippi (Air conditioned
hotel the stationery boasts!) comes word
from Hortense Powell Cooper who said
"My husband is down here taking part in
the Southern Assembly, which is sponsored
by Tulane. and they are discussing the
Representation of the I'nited States Abroad.

1 am looking in on it. but mainly vacation-
ing with our youngest son. John Powell,
who arrived October 1 "ith. We have two
other sons, aged "i and 2''i. but left them
home this time.

"We (the Class) had an excellent re-
sponse to my fall letter. Twenty-nine con-
tributed $283.75 — almost twice the response
over this same period last year. However,
this is only a .start, so please, everyone
contribute, if only a dollar. "

Hortense included a card from Irene
\'ongehr Vincent, and a picture of Irene
and her adorable John Edward, born June
16. Irene wrote, "Life around here has been
at .sixes and sevens for months, and I en-
close a picture of the reason why. Little
John is a darling; it"s just that / cant
seem to get the hang of four children. It
seems like an army! I'm happy to report
my second book, about a trip we made in
India, is to be published next year by
Fabers in London, tentatively titled "India,
a Many Storeyed House. " with photographs
made by my husband and me. It was a race
between the book and the baby, as to which
would be completed first; glad to say the
book came in first, by three weeks. I wish
that California weren't tjiiile so far from
Sweet Briar."

Libby Aiercer Hammond left February
9th for a Caribbean cruise with her husband.
Her seventeen year old son (6 ft. 2) is in
his fourth year at Woodbury Forest in
Orange. Virginia. Libby said she saw Anne
]\".iti)ig Lane in Savannah recently and she
looked fine. ij

And '"Hazy"' H.tzelton was found in San
Francisco between exciting trips. She was
just back from Seattle where she saw Polly
Poe Richmond and Beth Thonun Mason.
They were her first SBC touch in years, she
said, and "both looked wonderful, same
for husbands, homes and children." Hazy
is momentarily working for the Foreign
Policy Association in S. F.. but is leaving
in late March to visit her sister living near
Paris for the spring and summer.

Two more applicants for match-making
mothers: A son, Chester Allen, was born
on October 25 to Barbara Smith Whitlock.
The baby has two older brothers and an
older sister, and all live in Hillside, N. J.
And Oli\ia Davis was born May 22 to
you-know -who Brown, in Louisville, Ky.

Polly Buze Glascock moved early in
September to Short Hills, N. J., and she
says that the house isn't actually new, only
to them, and they have been busy re-dec-
orating. She said she took her Scott to New-
York to see Nancy H.niin.i Elliot and her
family off for a year in Europe. Da\id will
be at Oxford on a Ford Foundation grant
studying International Law and History,
and the family will do quite a bit of travel-
ing on the Continent.

"Teetee" Ai.iciiniion Ballard was one of
the few kind ones who answered my post
card pleading for class news. She lives in
Bennington, III., an RED type of surburb
of Chicago, and has Katy, i' i. Teddy. 3', 2.
and Benjie. I'l- 1 he Ballards live not only
in the deep country, but knee-deep in cats,
dogs, and children apparently. She wTote:
"I am duly impressed by the class of "-40
which seems to be made up of Pillars of
the Community and or Artists. I am neither!
Sweet Briar contacts are few and far be-
tween; but I did see Emory dll >X'illiams
at a wedding in Richmond. She was so

magnificantly sleek, svelt, and beautiful
that I am still dazzled."'

And to take us back 20 long years, Blair
Buiiling Both wrote on the back of a
Christmas card: "Remember Barbara Munn
— Fire Chief Freshman Year? She lives a
few blocks away (in Winnetka, 111.) and
has a daughter in Blairs class."

The class extends its sympathy to Mary
Petty Johns/on Bedell whose father died
in London last fall.

Please start 1957 with two SBC reso-
lutions:

Send your check to Hortense
and

Send much news of yourself and other
'■40-ers to me.

1941

President: Joan Devore (Mrs. John E.
Roth, Jr.), 2719 Hampshire Ave.. Cincin-
nati 8, Ohio.

Secretary: Margaret Stuart Wilson
(Mrs. Kenneth H. Dickey), 1902 Ash St.,
Texarkana, Ark.

Fund Agent: Evelyn Cantey (Mrs. An-
drew B. Marion). 11 Trails End, Green-
ville, S. C.

Many thanks for your cards and letters
at Christmas time. I have never seen cuter
children than these sweet things gazing up
at me from so many pretty firesides. Also,
I appreciated your encouragement on this
5 year secretary job. To those happy souls
who unthinkingly promised me one letter
a year from which to glean news, don't let
me down.

Joan DeVore Roth sent the sweetest
picture of their three girls. Barbara 9 yrs..
Dedie 6 yrs., and Nancy 3 yrs. DeVore and
John "had a glorious 10th anniversary trip
to Jamaica. Haiti, and Puerto Rico last
month. We really 'got away from it all,'
but were mighty glad to return home when
the time came. We were with Piney Martin
and Eugene Patterson often in San Juan.
They were awfully good to us statesiders
and wined and dined us beautifully. "

Having written about those who attended
Reunion. I thought you'd enjoy some news
from those unable to attend.

Doris Albray Barduch is married to an
attorney and lives in Maplewood. N. J.,
with their 6 year old daughter and 3 year
iild son (as well as a large Dalmatian).
In answer to the questionnaire's "Do you
have a job.-'"" Do says. "Ironic, isnt it? You
work 2-1 hours a day. seven days a week.
and still you must truthfully answer "no".""
Her interests are children, home. P. T. A.,
Little Theatre group, gardening, and dogs.

Franny Baldunt VC'hitaker is also married
to an attorney and they live in Birmingham.
Their offspring number 3; boys 10 and 8
years old. and a tiny girl 31). Franny has
summed up their outstanding .accomplish-
ments as "activity and noise." Their pic-
tures are darling. Franny lists her interests
as family, church, civic work, gardening,
reading, and fishing.

Edge Cardamonc O Donnell lives in
I'tica, N. ^'.. with her husband and four
children — Robert 13, Richard 10, Jean 7,
and Edward -4. No snapshots, so I can't
describe how attractive I know they are.
Edge had hoped to come to Reunion but
didnt make it.

Betty Doucttt Neill also was planning
to attend Reunion but didnt make it. Her

Spring 1957

husband is Associate Manager of the Col-
lege Department of Henry Holt Co., pub-
lishers, anJ they live in Tuckahoe, N. Y.,
with three children, John 8'/) years, Martha
Ann 6V2 years, and Douglas 3'/2 years.

Emory Hill Rex is married to a na\'al
officer, and at present they are stationed in
Hawaii with their 12 year old twins Lloyd
and Aline, and Anne Loren, age 9. To
quote from Emory's letter of May 10th,
"I'm holding down the 'home front' while
Dan is out at Eniwctok for the current
tests. He has been away a month and a
half and won't be home for quite awhile.
As to activities, I have never been busier —
I'm a Girl Scout leader, and at the moment
president of the Ford Island Officers' Wives'
Club. Also along with most of the wives,
Irii taking hula lessons — which is fun and
good exercise. Living on an island is time-
consuming. You see. Ford Island is in the
middle of Pearl Harbor — and we have to
take a ferry or motor launch to go back
and forth to the 'mainland!' You can't
run out to the store' for a few minutes —
it takes a couple of hours ! The children
are all fine. Lloyd and Aline are in 7th
grade, and Loren in 4th. The girls are
brown as berries — and both good at this
hula. Aline also takes ukelele lessons. Lloyd
is very busy with Boy Scouts and Cub
Scouts (he's a Den Chief) — and takes clari-
net lessons. So there's never a dull or spare
moment! It looks now as if we'll be here
until January 1957 — and we have no idea
yet where we go from here! "

Pi Dou'liiig von Wellshiem's May 10th
letter for the Reunion scrapbook also is too
wonderful not to share. She begins by tell-
ing Martha Jean, "I've already lost the ques-
tionnaire you sent, and I haven't the fog-
giest idea what your married name is, so
I just hope I can get this written before
the envelope with your address on it dis-
appears, too! I cannot possibly come to our
Reunion but I will certainly be wishing I
could see everyone and find out if they are
all still able to get into their clothes — it
would take two sets of everything I once
owned to cover my spacious build — when I
think of those skinny days of 119 lbs. I
have to sigh . . . All I seem to remember
about the questionnaire was my present
weight (around 140) and the size of my
family — I did laugh at the four lines you
provided for that. I am now the very busy
and happy mother of seven who are: Ingrid
12; Alfred, Jr. 10; Margaret 8; Patricia 6;
Ellen 4; Mark 2; Richard Joseph, 7 months.
We lost a daughter, Anne Elizabeth, who
came between 'Trish and Ellie and as you
can see, the last two boys came as a great
boon after so many girls — and I feel like a
more balanced sort of family at last!

"We live in Newville which is a tiny
hamlet in the country near Little Falls and
we have a lovely old rambling house built
in 1810 and complete with about 15 acres
of land, a grist and saw mill, barns, red
cabin, sheds and sheds, and inside four
fireplaces — one in my huge kitchen and an-
cther in my bedroom. Also, all the modern
conveniences ! Alfred, Jr., takes a school bus
into Little Falls each day to St. Mary's
Academy where he is in the 5th grade and
an avid baseball player — he also sleeps with
a gun and holster under his pillow in case
we are invaded by enemy cowboys in the
night — very consoling to all of us. Trish
was also going over to kindergarten at St.

Mary's until Christmas Day when I had a
\ery serious accident with the car and her
poor little face was just shattered — since
then we have been in and out of hospitals
with her and she had to have her nose
rebuilt, and all that remains now is a scar
near her mouth which may or may not have
to have plastic surgery when she is older.
It has been a pretty terrible experience for
us but we are so grateful to have her and
Margie, who was also with me, alive and
well again! Since Christmas three of the
children have contracted whooping cough,
of all the strange things — they all had shots
for it as babies so the cases were not sup-
posed to be very severe — just mopping up
after them morning, noon, and night for
the last six weeks and still they whoop
away! So naturally I cannot leave them to
go to a reunion or any place else for that
matter.

"Ingrid and Margaret go to private
school in Albany at Kenwood and aside
from that, we lead a fairly quiet ( ?) exist-
ence out here. My own family continues to
try to take over the population quota in
rural up-state New York, and my sister,
Barbara, now leads with her thirteenth child
due momentarily. Perhaps some of you have
met her at the Boca Raton meeting of the
Junior League a couple of years ago in
Florida. I think she had ten then and flab-
bergasted the entire assembly. So you see,
when people ask me how many children I
have, you can understand why I always say
'only seven.' As Al says, it's a good start
on a family!"

What more can your lowly class secretary
add, except to send me your news, and
send Evie Cjiitey Marion or the S.B. office
your checks.

Carl and Frances Boynton Drake, '42g,
with Sandy, Tim and Eleanor.

1942

President: CATHERiNn Coleman, Hannah
More Academy, Reistertown, Maryland.
Secretary; HELEN Sanford, 2731 Steel
Street, Houston, Texas.
Fitnd Agent: Mary Ruth Pierson (Mrs.
H. T. Fischer, Jr.), Bay Crest, Huntington,
N >■

This Christmas was a real bonanza. May-
be it was the nostalgia of reunion year, or
maybe it was just spots on the sun; but
whatever prompted it, I was veritably over-
whelmed with cards and letters from you —
and I loved it. I only wish we had space
here to reproduce all the handsome pictures

that came along. I'll try to keep this letter
brief (NOTE: This proved to be quite im-
possible) and hope that I can leave room
for two pictures at least . . . but who's
going to choose which two?

Word first from a few people who broke
years of silence to report in this Christmas.
Vive \Y\ilker Montgomery . . . one of my
favorite friends along the old Southern
Railway route . . . wrote from Memphis
that she is "terribly proud" of her five chil-
dren, and busy not only with their care
but with PTA, Junior League, Cub Scout
Den and Alvin Roy's Slenderizing Salon.
(Can you imagine Vive having need for a
slenderizing salon?) Margaret Leonard
Baker sent a wonderful long letter from
Ruxton, Md., where she and her husband
and their 12-year-old daughter, Campbell,
share their home with two German shep-
herds "who spend all their time growing."
Margaret too is active in Junior League,
church work, garden club work and occa-
sional Sweet Briar Club work . . . and
(what impresses me most at my age) is a
team bowler. Young Campbell has attended
Camp Allegheny, run by Nancy Worthing-
ton, and is a prospective Briarite.

Anne Bundy Lewis sent a very welcome
note from Petersburg, Va., where she lives
with her husband Jim, daughter Ellen and
18-month-old son Jimmy. Ellen is ten years
old now, and delighted to have a little
brother, and Anne says the whole family is
"disgustingly happy." Joanne Oherkirch
Willis sent a Christmas card picturing the
lovely home which she and her husband
Charles own (and live in) in Port Wash
ington. N. Y.

Margaret Preston Newton, living with
husband and children in St. Petersburg.
Fla., had very little to say about her own
activities, but she reported having seen
Sally ("Butch") Jackjon Mead, "who is
happily settled in a charming house with
her husband Boots and daughter Lindsey."
Boots is gaining a fine reputation as a pro-
fessor of music at the LIniversity of Vir-
ginia. Pres also reported that Ruthe Hen-
sley Camblos and Josh had built a new
home in Asheville. Pres described herself
as "busy with children. League work and
golf." (It all sounds so simple and easy.)

Lucy Call Dabney, imparting no news
about the Dabneys, wrote a note on her
Christmas card to call my attention to the
fact that Mr. S. B. Botsford is now presi-
dent of the New Yorker Magazine. Mr. B.
is the husband of Cynthia Abbott Botsford.

Polly Peyton Turner sent a delightful
long letter from Lanakai, Hawaii, where the
Turners are still happily on duty with the
Navy (though they expect to return to the
States sometime this year). Included with
Polly's letter was a snapshot of the family
. . . Polly, husband Carol, twin daughters
Sidney and Mary (looking not at all alike)
and a little 3-year-old imp named Anne.
What a fine-looking set of girls Polly's
raising.

By way of contrast, the Christmas card
from Margie Troiitinan Harbin and her
husband Tom carried a picture of them
with their five handsome boys . . . and not
a girl child around. The youngest Harbin,
Frank, was born May first of last year.
Margie reported that Frances Caldwell Har-
ris and her husband, having adopted a little
girl a few years ago. have now adopted a
little boy to even things out. Franny had

Aliitnnae News

been on my own "long-lost" list, and it
was rewarding to have word of her again.

Ruth Jjcquol Tempest and Rone ... al-
ready the parents of Brent, age 10, and
Mark, age 7, have just proudly produced a
"darling redheaded girl named Jill," born
on November 21st. The Tempest family
moved in January from California to Lara-
mie, Wyoming, where Rone will attend
graduate school in engineering administra-
tion under the auspices of the IJ. ,S. Air
Force Institute of Technology. Ruth has
sold three stories to Rcdbimk within the
past few months and three to M'csltiii
Fjmily, and her stories are being reprinted
now in four European countries. Watch for
that name . . . Ruth Jacquot Tempest.

Frannie Boyiiloii Drake sent a charming
note and a photograph of the good-looking
Drake family . . . Frannie, husband Carl,
sons Sandy (age 13) and Tim (age 3).
and daughter Eleanor (age II). Frannie
and Alice Sutney Weed (our friend .Swede)
are near neighbors in the country suburbs
of St. Paul. ^Iinn., and see each other often.
Betty Biuuii Sweney and Mary Brown
Griggs are also part of the St. Paul clan.

One of the cards that delighted me most
was from Eleanor R/iiger Linn . . . long un-
heard from and an excellent card-writer.
"Ringer" and her husband John are in
Ithaca, N. Y., where John is teaching in
the Cornell English Department, and where
"Ringer" will one day finish work for her
Ph.D. Her academic activities have been in-
terrupted by a mischievous-looking little boy
named Johnny, now l(i months old, who
(according to his mother) "has an undis-
guised passion for the pages of books —
physical, not intellectual."

Eugie Burinll Affel sent a card bearing
a photograph of her three exceptionally at-
tractive sons . . . Charlie (age 9). Griffin
(age 7) and John (age 4), and reported
that her family had taken up ice skating last
fall . . . with the result that Herman (hus-
band and father of the crew) spent the
holiday season with his arm in a cast.
Sudie CLirk Hanger sent a beautiful picture
of five a! my favorite children . . . her
Libba. Billy. Johnny, Jimmy and Susan.
Libba. Sudie's oldest daughter, is interested
in Sweet Briar, and will probably be one
of our first class daughters t<i enroll there.

Laura Gr.iits Howell reported that her
life in Lynchburg is "pleasantly routine"
and devoted mrstly to husband and family
. . . which includes her son Geep and
daughter, Laura. Laura (the elder) reported
further that Si W'jlic Rogers' brother will
be headmaster at Virginia Episcopal School
next year; and. still further, that Betsy
ChjmherLini Burchard and her husband
Peter are living in New York City, New
York. Peter has illustrated a recently pub-
lished children's book which we believe to
be entitled "John Billingsley. " Ciloria Sjiid-
eriDi! Sartor and Lane sent a lovely Christ-
mas card decorated with the pictures of their
three charming daughters. Ann. Kate and
Sally. And Grace Bftc;.? Muller-Thym re-
ported from Maryland that she and Harry
have "the same three children but a little
older, two dogs, three cats, and (being
country dwellers) lots of friendly mice."
Jane Tiiylor Lowell and Bob sent a copy
of their yearly "Christmas letter." which is
so full of interesting sidelights on life in
Europe that I can't possibly cover it here.
I'll save it for next time.

Dr. Tom and Margaret Troutman Harbin,
'42g, with their iive sons.

Before next time comes, however, I'll
hope to see every one of you at Reunion.
Almost all the people mentioned in this
letter . . . and I hope many more . . . are
planning to be there. You come too, will

1943

President: Esther )nTT (Mrs Hugh L. Hol-
land, Jr.), 204 Cl.iy Street, Suffolk, Va.
Secretary: Braxton Preston, 105 Mercer
Street, Princeton, N. J.
Fund Agent: Lucy Kiker (Mrs. William
C. Jones), Box 449, Franklin, Va.

It's still January as I write this, so per-
haps not too late to say Happy New "Year
to all of you.

The news I have spans the years, includ-
ing as it does a long letter from Janie Find-
ley Tate, written to Fay MMlin Chandler
last year and now lent to me. Since the
Tales have long lived in far .-iway places,
the letter is a travelog, but it differs from
the "sun sinks into the coconut milk" ones
by being informative. Let me give you a
brief framework and then quote — also
briefly — some of Janie's interesting com-
i".ients.

The Tales lived in Sumatra for three
years and then came home by the Near East
and Eun pe. After three months at home
they returned to Sumatra (Palembang) via
Japan and Hongkong. They then spent a
few months in South Africa, and at the
time of the letter were settled in Bombay.

Here is Janie on South Africa: "It is the
most beautiful country you can imagine but,
being an old BBB pupil, their social sense,
( r lack of it, did me in. We found the
white South African a very mediocre, lower
middle class type in his thinking and living.
He has his head in the sand and is hoping
his problems will go away when he comes
up to find wh.it the cricket and rugby scores
are. "

And on India: "India does take a bit of
getting used to. The poverty and dirt, the
lack of a sense of humor among the In-
dians, their inferiority complex that they
hide behind a superior attitude, can get you
down. But the fantastic sights you see every
day as you drive downtown, the luxurious
way of living, and the total diflerentness,
if there is such a word, is continuously fas-
cinating."

Janie is taking piano lessons in Bomb.iy;
she plans a trip home in 19'>7; Charlie's
next assignment will probably be Australia.
(He coordinates machine accounting sys-

tems in various refineries . . . name of oil
company not given.)

As I said, this letter came to me from
Fay, who also sent various other items. (I
think she sees more of you than any other
one of us, and she is extremely kind about
passing on the news.)

Brooks Barnes vacationed in Nantucket
where the Chandlers always spend the sum-
mer and one day she and Fay ventured to
the mainland for a Sweet Briar auction
(they sold apples, I suppose), where they
ran into Mary Eleanor Aioss Kelakis. Fay
also mentions getting together frequently
with Tish S/ehels Frothingham ('41) ami
I gather they not only swim and sail, but
also surf-cast for blue fish. This summer
husband Al must have spent a lot of time
putting the finishing touches on his book,
Henry Winium Poor, published just in time
for Weezie Woodruff Angst to buy the first
copy for her husband for Christmas. That
was possible because ^'eezie was visiting
John, who spent three months at Harvard
in the Business School's Advanced Man-
agement Training Course. While there she
had lunch at Fay's with Brooks and Louise
Moore Nelson, who had come through a
seige with rheumatoid arthritis; all last
spring she was in bed.

Clare Ejger Matthai writes deprecatingly
of her own immodesty in admitting that
daughter Murray is cute. She also tells me
that Nancy Pmgree Drake and Em have
been training the children, via swimming
and sailing lessons, into an accomplished
crew for the large sloop Em ordered — from
Hongkong.

Betty Belle L.iiindtr Butin has had a sec-
ond sen — just 16 months after the first one.
She's soloist in her church choir and work-
ing hard on her house . . . painted all her
porch furniture pink. Frances Tjylor Trigg
has moved from Baltimore to Atlanta,
where her husband has gone into business
with his father. They have a third son,
Bruce T.iylor, born June 4, 1956.

And about babies: Page Ruth Foster tells
me she has a third child, first daughter. No
other details. And Caroline Miller McClin-
tock had a fourth child on April 16. 19'i6
— Oscar Miller McClintock. Finally. Janice
Fitzgerjld Wellons had Dorothy Bennett
Wei Ions, daughter number three, in the
summer.

The "Virginia Beach contingent got to-
gether .again last summer — Esther Jett Hol-
land. Byrd Smith Hunter. Lucy Kiker Jones,
as usual, and this year Shug Shugjrt Den-
nehy. whose husband is now stationed in
the Norfolk area. (So. more recently, is
Mary Belle Lee Aldridge's husband.) Esther
also saw Donnie Scott Hodges and her chil-
dren on the beach; Donnie looks (who's
surprised?) wonderful.

Lucy Kiker and all the Joneses saw Har-
riet Swenson Munschauer in June. They
spent the day with Harriet, Fred, and their
two blonde children at the Munschauer's
Lake Erie cottage, on their (the Jones')
way to Canada. Missey Jones and Carol
Munschauer (both aged 8) made plans to
meet again at S.B. in years to come.

Elizabeth Munce moved to Charlottesville
in August; she works for Miller & Rhoads
(Virginia's branch of Lord and Taylor)
and they have a beautiful new branch in
Charlottesville.

From Beth Dichman Smith — I'm happy
to sav onlv a few blocks away — I get nice

Spring 1957

budgets of news. For instance, she had
lunch in the fall with Harriet Piilltii Phil-
lips and reports that Harriet is busy with
her three children and their activities, not
to mention her Junior League's Thrift Shop
and other civic enterprises, and that she no
longer has red hair. Harriet brought Beth
up-to-date on Etfie SiegUiif. Bower's family;
she has five children, two boys and three
girls. Next, Beth reports that Skip Bi\ichcr
O'Connell and her family have recovered
from a bad time last year when one of the
children was accidentally shot. He is, hap-
pily, fine now, with no permanent ill
effects. Still next, Beth has called ;iiy
attention to some interesting articles (one
a full-pag.e Sunday spread) in the New
York Times on May Gardner Smith's hus-
band. Carter Burgess. Having retired as
Undersecretary of Defense, he is now presi-
dent of TWA. Finally, Beth called Peggy
Rnudni Foster (during a swift trip to New
York last week to see a new nephew ) and
found her busily readying home and fire-
side for for/y-foiir dinner guests !

Your letters, messages, and Christmas
cards prove that you're very busy people.
You also travel a lot. Call me if you come
by Princeton; would love to see you. And.
failing a visit, do please write, call, or send
smoke signals. Your classmates would have
news of you.

1944

President: Martha Lee Hoffman (Mrs.
Harry E. McCoy, Jr.), 1371 Emory Place,
Norfolk 9, Va.

Secrelitry: Barbara Duncombe (Mrs.
James A. Lang), 2115 Garrison Ave.,
Butte, Mont.

Fund Agent: Emilv Wilkins (Mrs. Thomas
B. Mason), 3 N. Princeton Circle, Lynch-
burg, Va.

PLAN AHEAD ... the story of my life.
Last issue I asked for volunteers to write
this letter, since I thought we would be
moving about the time it would be due.
And what's more, I even got one: Franny
Peltil O'Halloran, bless her. But . . . since
then, we have mo\ed not once but twice . . .
the house we were renting was sold; where-
upon we found a summer rental furnished,
put everything in storage, and THEN our
house we are building was not finished at
the appointed time. But we had no place
else to go, so since September 9 we have
been living in the basement of an unfin-
ished house ... a practice that has nothing
to recommend it, believe me. And now in
less than two years in Butte, we find our-
selves the bewildered holders of a record;
five houses and two motels. Oh, well.

■What I started out to say: Franny offered
to do the article, but your Stupid Scribe had
let her desk go into storage with all the
addresses, copy paper, instructions, and
other appurtenances of the office ... so,
bear with me, and I will unburden myself
of the news that has come my way, un-
solicited (my favorite way for news to
come ! )

Our president, Martha Lee, has a son.
Harry E. McCoy, III, born August 28. and
she says he is magnificent. He has two older
sisters who are in school now, and ought
to be pretty efficient mother's helpers.

And Ellen Boyd DttrM and Billy Miller
have announced the arrival of Judith Dab-
ney, on August 3- They are too modest,

with their first, and gave no other glowing
details.

A note from Lucile Christ m.is Brewster:
"In all our excitement over at last having
a baby, I can't remember whether I have
already written to you about him — Born
September 24, 1955. adopted January '56
— Bartlett Christmas Brew.ster — Chris to us.
He's walking now at 10 months, has a
crew cut given by his dad, is blond and
blue-eyed. 'We are having more fun with
him than we could possibly have guessed.
Bill is working hard on the arrival next
spring of the Mayflatver II from England
to Plymouth. May even be able to sail over
on her! "

Among the address changes, one for
Helen Grarjtt. hereafter to be referred to
as Mrs. 'NX'illiam J. 'VCyatt. That one came
just day before yesterday, or I would cer-
tainly liave done SOMETHING about get-
ting a little more information.

Us "Westerners got together briefly last
summer, not all of us of course, just the
Fessendens and Langs, the ones I always
think of as being the most surprised to be
here! Alice Johnson and Bill, and their
Faith, Lucinda, and Jimmy had been camp-
ing all over: Salmon. Idaho and Glacier
Park and such like, and returned to Casper
through Butte. They all looked wonderful,
and we are planning on a return engage-
ment soon.
New addresses:
Mrs. 'William J. "Wyatt (Helen Gravatt)

9-D Davidson Park

Lexington, "Virginia
Mrs. Harry Maiden (Marjorie "Willetts)

645 S. Marengo Avenue

Pasadena, California
Mrs. Ellis S. Rump. Jr., (Anne Hynson)

Owen Road

'West Chester, Pennsylvania
Mrs. George Hilbert (Betty Jean Griffin)

1213 Berwick Avenue

Baltimore 4, Maryland
Mrs. Robert Seller (Peggy Gordon)

2421 Stuart Avenue

Richmond 20, Virginia
Mrs. Pierpont Buck (Alice Lancaster)

R 2, Box 432

Fairfax. Virginia
Mrs. Laurance T. Clark (Elizabeth
Hartman)

237 Gralake Avenue

Ann Arbor, Michigan
Mrs. 'Walter R. Robinson, Jr. (Marguerite
Brendlinger)

4191 E. -16th St.

Tulsa, Oklahoma

You all deserve better than this, I will
try to see that you get it in the future,
when Life becomes a little more beautiful
for the Butte Branch, or else I will expect
to be impeached.

Second verse, same as the first. Was
SLIRE those old notes would get in the
fall issue. And now I have just arrived
back in Butte to find a postcard saying
copy for the Spring issue should be in the
Alumnae Office TODAY.

Before I get on to give you the gleanings
from a few tired old Christmas cards, I
must explain that we have moved into our
house, or to be accurate, upstairs from the
basement. This was accomplished Christmas
Eve, among a few other minor Holiday
Projects. 'VC'e are still without doors to
kitchen cabinets, bannister, curtains, and a
number of other refinements, but the carpet

is laid and the dishwasher connected, so
who complains!

And on January 2, we left for Winnetka,
whence we have just returned (January
31st). Jim had to go to a school at the
factory, and I, too, put in a very gruelling
few weeks: sleeping late and going to
parties and decorating a house 1702 miles
removed from the Merchandise Mart. Mis-
sion accomplished.

Back to those Christmas cards I promised.
I, myself, sent out one card this year . . .
to Franny Boynton Drake, '42, saying we
would be in St. Paul on January 4, and
asking if she would be available. She was.
Their house is a dream, and Carl Drake
a dream husband who met four Langs at
the St. Paul station at 6:40 a.m. and didn't
even look sleepy. We hadn't seen them
since they moved from Winnetka, and they
all look wonderful, especially Timmy, a
three year old charmer who was entirely
new to us. Franny had everything under
control; gave us breakfast, sent Carl and
Jim off" to work, rounded up the right size
skates so Mary Stuart Lang could go skat-
ing with Eleanor Drake and her overnight
guest who as I recall was Betty Sweney's
daughter, Pat, then had luncheon for me!
How organized can you get? Alice Sweney
had a cold and couldn't come, so the only
other S. B. representative at the luncheon
was Phoebe Sweney WooUey. '45. Craig
Woolley had just been appointed General
Manager of Hamm's, from the Land of
Sky Blue Wa-a-ter a few days earlier. I
am mortified to discover that I can't pre-
cisely report the number of Phoebe's and
Craig's children, none of whom were in
evidence that afternoon, but they are a
goodly number, four or five, with an assort-
ment of gender.

I seem to keep dangling these Christmas
cards in front of you . . . and actually
very few of them have any news of General
Interest, and some of them, I tearfully
report, have nothing at all but names . . .
just WAIT until one of YOU is Secretary!

Millie Brenizer Lucas and Ed are moving
to New York in the summer, and mean-
while are househunting in Westchester and
Connecticut.

Anne Aicjtiniin Briber, '43, and Frank
say they "spent the summer buying and
selling a house and are now busy getting
settled in our new" — well, she wrote adobe,
but I feel sure adobes are rare in Milwaukee,
and what she meant was abode. "The chil-
dren, Anne, Jr., and Frank, Jr., are fine
and busy with Brownies. Indian Guides,
and ice skating. "

A card signed Martha. John, Jack, Mark,
and Giles Barton I recognize as being from
my sometime roommate, Lindsey. and a
note asked, "Why don't you vacation in
sunny (.•')" (her question mark, not mine)
"Florida and come to see us? We now have
three extremely active boys, the last being
too young to really do much." Frances
Longino Schroder filled me in on this casual
birth announcement with the following:
"Hope you are having a White Christmas "
(we didn't) "we've had 78° weather for
about a week! No outstanding news at the
moment except we're ail well. Betty Haterty
Smith had another boy on December 9,
Edward Kendrick Smith. Lindsey had
another boy, Giles, on October 12."

Emily Ann Wilkins Mason and Tom
sent a picture of Martha Wyatt and Polly

1>6

Aliimnde News

from Lynchburg saying that Tom has left
law practice and gone with a local bank
as trust officer which he likes very much.

The Neeses and Murrays report reunions,
past and pending, now that the Murrays
are in New Orleans and the Neeses in
Columbus, Mississippi. Sterling Nelllt-s.
Murray and Kay Suit Neese, that is.
Sterling says that "Win is a grown-up
twche, and Tad can't wait for the first
flight to the moon. Have seen Kay and Bob
se\eral times . . . haven't changed a bit.
Karen is tall, thin, and lery pretty. Both
hoys are all boy and also good-looking.
We are settled in the deep south."

Jinnie Noyef Old Faithful Pillsbury sent
a letter, quote: "My sister was married in
Amherst last June, so we got down there
in lime to take in most of the commence-
ment festivities. There wasn't a single other
member of '44 there, so I held the fort
by myself. The Class of '46 was having
their tenth, of course, so they were en masse
and very kindly took me in at most of the
social aftairs. I did see a number of rel-
ati\es of classmates, though. Helen Cantey's
sister was there, and Murrell Rickard's
mother, ( Ricky, herself, was too busy get-
ting ready for a trip to Europe to make it).
The day before the wedding, Bootie VCyck-
oft, Anne \V'ooJ.\ Guzzardi's sister, most
generously took my older two girls for the
whole day out to their place on the James
and then on a picnic for supper. Jeannette
and Hannah had a wonderful time, and
needless to say the wedding preparations
went much easier without them. Jan's
wedding was loads of fun, but the mornin.g
of the wedding the pump at the big house
ceased working and poor Daddy spent most
of the day down in the thing. Life was
complicated by having all the festivities
at the big house and all plumbing at the
cottage, but everything went pretty well,
even then. Hugh and I went to Richmond
one day to see some Milwaukee friends
who recently moved there. Ann took me
over to see Fence \\"iUi.iiiii Meyers ( I never
could have found her house by myself).
Her house is beautiful, her twins very cute,
and we talked a blue streak, of course.
She had just recently returned from a trip
to Europe with her sister. Life around here
is the same old stuff. Junior League, Sunday
School, Scouts, and family. We added on
to our house finally last spring, and are
thrilled with the results . . . doubled the
first floor area. I still have loads of painting
to do "

NX'hich brings us full circle, for I, too,
have "loads of painting to do. " ^"e are
all well, Jim is Zone Man.iger for Motorola
for Wyoming and Montana. Mary, at 7,
is almost as tall as I am at a considerable
multiple of 7, and Lindsey is taller than
Mary was at 5 . . . the midget stram
appears to be dying out in the Great Big
West. The above address is more permanent
than we usually get. so send your news, or
yourselves for a visit, or your Grim Notices
t}f Impeni-ling Impeachment, and you can
be fairly sure of delivery.

1945

President: Harriet VI'illcox (Mrs. David
F. Gearhart), 980 Juniper Rd., Hellcrtown,
Pa.

Secret jry: Anne Dickson (Mrs. G. S.
Jordan). Bay Colony, Virginia Beach, 'Va.

Fund Agent: Julia Mills (Mrs. Lawrence
Jacobsen), 4416 Edmonds St., Washington,
D. C.

19^7 finds me just as much a procrasti-
nator as 1956. Here I am again rushing
to meet the deadline for this letter. Thank
you all for your wonderful Christmas cards.
It makes this job very gratifying, and I
love the pictures of your families. Jane
Mcjankin Hufi'man sent a darling one of
her children, two girls and a boy. Also
Hulda Edfin Jackson and Mary Hjskim
King, all of which I'm sending to the
Alumnae oflnce hoping that one will get in.

Hulda moved into a wonderful new
home in May. She says it's really an old
house remodeled and has five bedrooms
and three baths upstairs. Sounds like a
mansion ! Her third child, second boy,
Robert Hutchinson, was bon August 8.
Hulda sees Margie Koonce McGregor often.
She has two little girls and also a new-
house.

From Greensboro, N. C. came an espe-
cially nice card with a long newsy letter
from Mary Hjskinf King. I'm sure many
of you recei\ed the same. Mary spent several
days at Sweet Briar last year wi;'i Lois
Ballenger and had a marvelous time. Mai7's
third child was due in July but SHE made
an early appearance on June 6. Her name
is Telle. Mary says "Jetton is a Dennis the
Menace type, and the good Lord knew I
couldn't take on a third son!" In August
the family went to Myrtle Beach where
they met Mary's sister Nancy and David
Elliot for two weeks. Jet is now in the
tool box business. They rent small and
large equipment to individuals and to con-
tractors. "I've even rented a power mower
sexeral times, paid for it, and then cut the
grass myself!" They also have the distri-
butorship in N. C. for G. M. diesel engines.

Edie Page Gill Breakell sent a picture
of her two boys. They are so cute, but ap-
parently nameless. The Alumnae Office does
like to ha\e their names, too!

Betty Pender Lazenby and family are now-
living in Los Altos, California. Dick is
stationed at Moftett Air Force Base. They're
not far from San Francisco, but Betty says
the traffic is so bad she doesn't think
they II ever get there.

The news has been xery sparse this time.
Please do write to me before May. Don't
forget, if you haxen't sent in a donation
to the Alumnae Fund, it's never too late.
Also, only contributors receive the March
and June issues of the Alumnae New.s.

1946

President: ADELINE JONES (Mrs. Stephen C.
■Voorhees), 1604 Louden Heights Road,
Charleston, West 'Virginia.
Secretary: PoLLY Vandeventer (Mrs. Ro-
bert Saunders), 16 Shirley Road, Warwick,
Va.

r//nd Agent: Lucv Charles Jones (Mrs.
Robert Bendall Jr.), 4431 Southampton
Ave., Danville, Va.

Happy New Year, everybody ' I hope
1957 has started of} happily for you all
and that those resolutions have not com-
pletely dissolved. I wish everyone w-ould
resoUe to give to me the tools to do the
job — tools, that is. in the form of SEW S.
I sent out 15 cards requesting news and had
exactly 2 responses. If you want w-ord of

your class it isn't coming out of thin air,
so please respond when I tap you. I know
you are busy and one more thing is a
nuisance, but if we want a Newsletter
"something's gotta give." This letter will
consist of a few tidbits I gathered from
Christmas cards, my few responses, and
local Sweet Briarites. Am sorry if it lacks
meat, but the pickings are slim.

Dottie dldiiel! Crowell has a boy, An-
drew Robert, born October 2, making their
score 2 girls and a boy.

Ariana Junei Wittke reported the arrival
of James Henry Wittke on October 21
weighing .S lbs. and his parents think he
is a "boy wonder."

Ellie Clements Littleton (bless her!)
reports that her 5th child, Clement Littleton,
w-as born November 4, helping to even the
score of three girls. Millie. S. Jean, 7,
Elin. 5 and a son. Fred. 3. Isn't that .some-
thing? She says (and I don't doubt it)
that "life is hysterical and hectic. " Some
new-s, too, from Ellie about Polly Kent
Page. Polly's third child was born Novem-
ber 26 — a girl — named Mary Kent Page.
"They still live in South Chicago where
Bob is teaching pharmacology at L'niversity
of Chicago. Life is really rugged for them —
they ha\-e to ha\-e fltiod lights which come
on at 10:00 p.m. to light up the back of
their house for protection." I am not sure
whether w-e give "outside" new-s or not but
Ellie also said she sees quite a lot of Blair
Biirwell May, a '47 member, and that her
husband is a very successful pediatrician
in Wayne, Pa. (Success is as success doe.s —
they have 3 under 3 ! )

"Thanks to Barbara Hood Sprunt's co-
operation. I have some news froni her.
They ha\e been in their new house in
Memphis for 5 months and "just lose it."
Their baby, Barbara Gregg, was I year
old Feb. 10th. She saw- Betty Ann Bass
Norris and George and Jeanne Parbjni
Coors and her George for cocktails in the
Fall. Fun was had by all. Ruth Houston
Jarvis and Bob. she reports, were in Mem-
phis for Christmas and Hallie Tom Nixon
Powell and Jack have a new- daughter.

Anne Owens Mueller wrote on her Christ-
nias card that she and Rick are enjoying
Coronado, Calif. — that the "Pacific is still
swimmable if you're hardy. I'm not." She
said that Rick has been at sea most of the
year but he's home now. (These poor Navy
wives. I'll settle for my stationaiy lawyer!)

Mary Lou Holton w-rote at Christnias
that she was spending the holidays with
her sister, Marty, in New Jersey, and that
she was overjoyed at being with Marty
and the 3 boys at that time. Lou had dinner
with us one night last summer (for my
first pizza pie, from scratch — I thought the
Continental fare would appeal to our world
traveller.) She looked marvelous and was
her gay. interesting self. Lou. by the way.
is teaching English to foreign students at
the L'niversity of Illinois in L'rbanna where
she has an apartment.

Candy Gretne Satterfield was home
(Virginia Beach) for the holiday, with
daughter Carcline and husband Jim. She
says Caroline — almost 2 — is her favorite
"Woman's Home Companion. " Candy is
thoroughly contagious — Caroline is exuber-
ant, too ! Jim w as in South America for
several weeks in Ian. on British-Anierican
Tobacco business before returnin.B to their
home in Louisville-. Kentucky. Virginia

SpRINC. 1957

Wynn and her family have extended true
Kentucky hospitality to the Satterfields, ac-
cording to Candy's reports. Ginny. by the
way. has recently had a wonderful taste of
Florida's hospitality. (Hope it was sunnier
than my taste last Spring, by gum ! )

Rosie Ashby Dashiell has just phoned
to tell me some news. Hurrah ! I3oots Tjylor
Hollowell has recently moved into a tie-
mendous house — new address is 544 Pem-
broke Avenue, Norfolk — one of those old
ones with four full floors. (Rosie didn't
mention a boarding house but it sounds
like one.) Polly PoU.ird Kline has moved
to Richmond — new address is 1'526 Bexhill
Road — where Bob has a wonderful new
|ob in advertising. We will really be hearing
from Bob at this rate — thought he already
had an excellent job in Norfolk.

Rosie was a Junior League delegate to
the recent regional conference in Charles-
ton, West Virginia, where she saw Ade
Jones Voorhees and her new house. Ade's
family and house were most attractive
( house incomplete — can't vouch for
family ! ) and Ro was well pleased with
Ade's lot. She also enjoyed seeing Mary
Jane L'nely Hoffman, who has three boys
and looks splendid. She was taking notes
for the conference (I think). Just had a
card from Bea Dingwell Loos who reports
Kenneth Dingwell's arrival October 6th.
She is delighted now with her happy
balance of two to two. The family. League
work and the Sweet Briar club are keeping
her busy.

That is all. Much of it Dr. Short would
call padding — in fact, I was tempted to
give you the recipe for that pizza pie. At
this rate, I might just write a column in
the Alumnae Magazine for the Class of '46
called "Household Hints " or some such
nonsense. Let's all prevent that!

1947

President: Elizabeth Knapp (Mrs. J. W.

Herbert), 128 E. Dixon Ave., Dayton 9,

Ohio.

Secretary: Cynthia Bemis (Mrs William

A. Stuart, Jr.), Rosedale, 'Va.

Fund Agent: Margaret Ellen White

(Mrs. James M. 'VanBuren), 276 Lake-

moore Drive, N. E., Atlanta 5, Ga.

It seems that enthusiasm for our tenth
reunion is running high and, as things
look now, there should be a fair number
of us around for it.

Julia Holt Coyle had her fourth child.
Lucy Holden, in September. Peggy Robert-
son Christian had a son, Stuart, in April.
Not long ago, Peggy and Punky came by
and spent the night with us. She looks
wonderful and seems to be enjoying do-
mestic chores and life in Danville tremen-
dously.

Jean Old took her boat to Florida in
November and plans to take it to Nassau
in February. Jean says, "Last June I picked
up the Bug in Algonac, Mich., and brought
her across the Great Lakes, LIpper New
York, down Hudson to N. Y. C., Jersey
Coast, Delaware Bay, Chesapeake Bay,
home. I saw Birdhead in Detroit, Jackie
Schreck in Cleveland, spent the night
with Nat Hall in Erie, spent the night with
Crummie in Poughkeepsie and Connie in
Georgetown. Margie Redjern was with me
all the way . . ."

Margaret Munnerlyn Haverty is now the

mother of three — two girls, Peggy and
Jane, and Rawson, a twenty-five pound
eight month old dynamo. Eleanor Anne
Crumrine Stewart has moved to Pough-
keepsie. She writes, "We are now 'up — ■
east' again and loving it. We have a new
house on a dead-end street which makes
it wonderful for the children. Jesse Anne
is four now and quite a little lady. Bobby
is twenty-one months and a big bruiser."
Another mover is Margaret Ellen White
VanBuren. Life has promoted Jim and sent
them to Atlanta.

Linda McCoy Gould has moved to Bir-
mingham,. Mich., and is the mother of three
— Cathy. Billy and Curtis, Jr. Maria Tucker
Bowerfind, still in Cleveland, writes, "As
for us, our traveling days close with the
opening of Pete's office on December nth.
His practice has been going well in spite
of no office for the first six months. And
besides that and eating those good old
home cooked meals, he keeps busy teaching
and researching (in hematology) in the
hospital."

Sara Anne McMullen Lindsey writes of
her activites: "Doug is all set to manage
the new B. F. Goodrich establishment in
Arlington and I am quite the homebody
for a change — except that I was just ap-
pointed to a seven member commission to
construct and operate a Juvenile Detention
Home for Northern Virginia. There are
four lawyers and four ex-officio members
who are judges on the commission so I
really have to stretch my AB to keep up.
We'll be spending almost $200,000 of local
and state funds which is quite a jump
from my monthly household calculations."

Katherine Weisiger Osborne writes that
they were transferred to Charlotte in No-
vember. Ernie Banker is now in Chicago —
"Am doing field work for my master's
degree in social work from Smith — thus
the various treks across the country each
winter! Will graduate in September of
'57." Janet Amilon Wagner says that Amy
is now in school and that she spends her
time with Junior League, PTA, Junior
Symphony, Children's Theatre and some
TV work for the League in Denver. Shirley
Levis Johnson and Don are in the throes
of selecting blue prints for a house and
they have a lot in Northfield. She says,
"The kids and I spent seven weeks in the
north woods this summer. Don was there
the first and last week and two weekends
in the middle. He traveled the rest of the
time. Anne rowed and swam, Ashton caught
snakes and frogs and I painted the cabin
two coats. I am now a professional and
lack only my union card."

Blair Bitruell May had a son, Blair, in
July. She and Robert took the three children
and three dogs to Jacksonville for Christ-
mas. Anne Jackson Ragland tells us that
there were no new children in her family
last year but that they did add two cats,
a beagle and a French poodle to their
household. I missed getting home in time
to see Frankie Gardner Curtis before Christ-
mas. I had hoped to go down to the christ-
ening of the replicas of the Sarah Constant,
the Goodspeed and the Discoiery. John
Curtis works for the company that built
them.

We went to Richmond for Christmas
only to have two of our little ones burst
into full bloom with chickenpox on Christ-

mas Eve. There was some question as to
whether or not Santa Claus had anything
to do with bringing it.

Do line up your baby sitters for June
so we'll have a big group at Sweet Briar.

1948

Preside'!': Virginia Wurzback (Mrs.
Richard S. Vardy), Utwingslant NAS,
Norfolk, Va.

Secretary: Marv Jo Armstrong (Mrs.
Arthur H. Berryman), 1302 Avenue C,
Galveston, Tex.

Fund Agent: Elizabeth Beltz (Mrs. Wil-
liam F. Rowe, Jr.), 4829 Kensington Ave.,
Richmond, Va.

Newsweek recently stated that one out
of every five Americans move each year.
Lm convinced you all are doing your share
of keeping that statistic correct. Never a
month goes by that I don't get some changes
of address — some to new homes, others to
new towns. For instance, Betty Lou Bruton
Lyons moved from Memphis to Clearwater
Beach, Fla., and is now happily settled
with Marcia in kindergarten and little
Edward walking and reaching for every-
thing in sight. Betsy Plunkett Williams
is at Camp Pendleton, Calif., after two
years in the Philippines. Much to her sur-
prise and all those on the ship, Gerald
Glynn Williams, Jr., was born Nov. 7th
en route from the Philippines to the LI. S.
Louise Day McWhorter and Tom moved
into their new home in Houston. Harriotte
Bland Coke is busily getting settled into
her new house in St. Davids, Pa. Her hus-
band is an Assistant Professor at the L^ni-
versity of Pennsylvania. Jocelyn Stedman
Tyson's husband has been transferred from
Chicago back to Massachusetts and they
have bought a home on top of Wilbraham
Mountain. Jocie is working for an obste-
trician in Springfield. Judy Perkins Llew-
ellyn moved to Glenmont, N. Y., in August.
Judy Blakey Brown moved to Wisconsin
in July when Rocky was transferred as
Milwaukee representative of Nichols Wire
and Aluminum Co. They have an adorable
house with 53 acres of woods and country
around them. She spent two weeks last
summer in New York and York, Pa. —
York for her brother's wedding and New
York as a respite from the children. Nan
Steptoe McKinley is living in Baltimore
as her husband is on the Industrial Rela-
tions Staff' of Westinghouse. Her daughter,
Jeanne Bernice, was born March 29, 1956.
She has seen Ann Paxson several times.

In July, Jane Ransom Gray moved from
Memphis to Wilmington, Del., as her hus-
band took an engineering job with DuPont.
Mary Virginia Grigsby Mallett has moved
to Frederick, Md., where her husband is
a bacteriologist in the Biophysics Branch
at Fort Detrick.

Now do you understand why I send out
my questionnaires and beg and plead for
you to send me your correct address — these
are only a few of those I have gotten.

Weddings — Cynthia Harding married
Tom Collins May 5, 1956. Elma "Dickie"
Lile married Dr. John R. Hartman July
7, 1956.

New bambinos — Helen Pender Withers
had a daughter, Frances Pender, Oct. 20.
"Meon" Bou'er Harrison had a daughter,
Marion Carjiiichael, on March 3, 1956. It

Ahimtiiie Neu:\

was a boy for Lois Gale Harris — Jeffrey
(left) Townes Harris appeared Oct. 13. At
that time it meant i children for her — all
under 3 til March. Brave girl. The two
oldest can at least feed themselves, she says,
and the baby has been an angel . . . how-
ever, I'm still wondering when she found
time to write. Allen David Nelson, son
of Diane Kiiia Nelson and Harry arrived
January 6.

Eleanor Pullf Snodgrass is living 20
miles from London and Strib commuted
each day to Grosvenor Square til the Mid-
dle East crisis when he was sent aboard
ship but she hoped he'd be home by
Christmas. Last April they drove thru
Holland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland,
France and Belgium and then in September
they toured Scotland and England. She says
her children now have thick English accents.
Susan is in her second year at school and
loves it. Dolly Anlrim McKenna is also
|ust outside of London ("Bryn-Teg," The
Avenue, Camberley, Surrey). She loves
England but loves the U. S. much, much
more. They will be home this summer
after a tour of Europe. Pottsie is also com-
ing back to the LI. S. this summer. Kax
Berthier McKelway wrote that John had
just returned from a quick trip to Hungaiy
and Austria to cover the "airlift " of refu-
gees — all this caused much excitement
around their house. Her two boys, "Beau "
and St. Clair, are growing by leaps.

Mayde Litdinglun Henningsen spent the
fall battling all the children's diseases. She
saw Jane Jnhrison Kent at the beach last
summer. Nancy Moses Eubanks came thru
with a letter last fall — I was overjoyed to
hear from her — but with three children
her life is busy. Mylinda (Lindy) will be
^ in April. Bill. Jr., was 2 in October and
Hamilton Moses was 1 in March.

Helen "Twink" Ellioll Sockwell wrote
that Bess Pratt's wedding December 8 was
lovely. Liz Hvoks Richards was there. Last
summer Liz spent 2 weeks in Memphis
and Texas and saw Nancy Moses Eubanks.
Jane Luke is at Johns Hopkins Hospital
where she has a fellowship in pediatrics.
She and several other girls have a house
near Towson and she is able to see Sally
Pearre occasionally. Ann Samjord L^pchurch
and Sam visited Peggy Sheffield Martin
and Tom for the Georgia Tech-Alabama
game in No\'ember.

'Virginia Holmes Turner says Betsy takes
up most of her time but she has done
some work for the Research Bureau of the
Social Planning Council. She teaches Sun-
day School to a lively group of -i year olds
at the L'nitarian church, works for the
lunior League.

For the past six years Dru Christian has
been doing Personnel work at the Naval
Air Station in California. She is responsible
for the examination of qualifications of
applicants for appointment and position
changes and for the operation of the sta-
tion's promotion policy in general. She says
the work is fascinating and full of variety
since they employ over 8000 in all cate-
gories from soup to nuts.

Blair Gr.iies Smith is finding Philadel-
phia a wonderful place to live with so
many tempting things to do and see. She
ran into Harriotte Bt.iiid Coke and had
dinner with them. Blair and Brenton had
a boy, Kenneth Dawson, on Dec. 28. 'Vi
W'hilehe.id Morse spent two weeks at N,igs

Head, N. C, last summer and then had her
brother's children — -i under 4 years, plus
her two children — visit her en route to
Germany. She has seen Nancy Vduf,hii
Kelly and Dan several times. 'Vi's husband
is in the General Counsel's Office of the
Secretary of Defense.

Phyllis Thorpe Miller made a trek to
Pelham last summer with a side trip to
Massachusetts and the beach . . . plus
several weekends at Hot Springs. Last fall
had been busy with League work and the
children.

Edith Scannell is a secretary working
for the American Brake Shoe Co., in the
department of personnel services. Liz Brain-
ham Lee was in Memphis for Eleanor
Bosworth's engagement party. She and her
husband have just bought adjacent ocean
front lots with Eleanor's brother at Ponte
■Vedra Beach but don't know just when
they will build.

Big news from Jane McCaffrey McBrian
is that she and Jim and their three children
are sailing August 19th on the Queen
Elizabeth, Jim's mother and father have
moved abroad and will keep the children
in the British Isles while she and Jim tour
a bit.

Maddin Liiplon McCallie and David
went to Los Angeles to the American Col-
lege of Physicians annual meeting last April
and afterwards toured Yosemite and San
Francisco. She went to Boston in June and
to Sea Island in September. Suzanne Hardy
Beaufort and Ira just happened to have
planned the same weekend at the Cloisters
so stopped by Sea Island for a couple of
days with the McCallies on their way.
Both of Suzanne's children are in school
this year. She has been teaching ballet to
a little group at the Girl's Center. Eve
Godchaux Hirsch and Herbert have a place
on Lake Ponchatrian so spent much of the
summer there. Sally Davis Spencer reports
an Alumnae Club has been organized re-
cently in Columbus and they've been mildly
active with money making projects but
much, much enthusiasm.

Can you help me locate these lost souls:
Suzanne Edwards (Mrs. Albert J. 'Weather-
head); Betsy Garrison (Mrs. Elbert M.
Barton); Ileana Garcia (Mrs. R. B. Stipes);
Jane Gray (Mrs. Philip A. Starck); Ruth
Harris (Mrs. 'Wallace Bennett); Anne
Hyde; Eleanor Johnson; Joyce Raley; Mar-
garet Staft'ord; Sylvia Schively; Elinor Tay-
lor (Mrs. William H. Hough); Pamela
Terry (Mrs. Pamela Terry Stoutenburg);

I know the stork has visited several last
fall. Take pen in hand and send me the
news.

1949

President: Preston Hodg"S (Mrs. Eugene
Dubose Hill, Jr.), 122 Don Allen Rd.,
Louisville 7. Ky.

Secretary: Carolinf Casev (Mrs. C. Cole-
man MiGehee), 5504 Monumental Ave..
Richmond 26, 'Va.

Fund Aveiit: Catherinh Cox, 4930 Cedar
Ave.. Philadelphia 43, Pa.
ENGAGEMENT: Catherine Greenway Cox

to Philip Reynolds, Jan. 26.
MARRIAGES: Mary Louis Stevens to Rut-
ledge Ri\ers Webb, Sept. 8, 1956.
Frances Evans Pope to Ishman Harrison
Evans, Nov. 17. 1956.
Elisabeth Jansma to Kas Ciorter, Nov.
24. 1956. ■

Debby and Becky, daughters of Alberta
Pew Baker, '49g.

BIRTHS: Ann Doar and Francis Jones, a
daughter, Anne Beverley, Oct. 8, 1955.
Alice Dulaney and Daniel Sheridan, a
daughter, Alice Virginia, Jan.. 1956.
Jean Crawford and 'VC'illiam M. Kean, a
son, William Madison, Jr., May 1, 1956.
Patsy Darin and Alexander Robinson, a
son, Edward Woods, May 26, 1956.
June Eager and Dr. William Finney, a
son. May, 1956.

Anne Fiery and Richard C. Bryan, a son.
May, 1956.

Carolyn Cannady and Her\ey Evans, a
son, E. Hervey III, June 28, 1956.
Libby Truehart and H. Hiter Harris,
Jr., hvin girls, Oct. 22, 1956.
Evelyn Lee Kagey and Johnson Lee, a
daughter. E\a Joye, Nov., 1956.
Ellen Ramsay and Kenneth F. Clark, a
son. John Ramsay, Jan., 1957.
Katie sent in her exciting news just in
time for a scoop for the Alumnai; Ntw.s:
"After all these years Auntie Kate is going
to take the veil — the bridal veil that is.
The gentleman who's changed my life in
such a nice way is one Philip Reynolds,
whom I met in Hartford just before I uime
down to Philadelphia. So you see it's been
rather a whirl-wind courtship but it sure
is it. Phil invests money for The Travelers
Insurance Company, so we shall be living
in Hartford, which suits me just fine. He's
a graduate of Yale, served in Korea, and
is the most thoroughly dcli.yhtlul guy you'd
ever hope to meet. I shall finish out the
year here at Penn and then will |-irobably
give up public administration for home
atlministr.ition. Surprisingly enough I find
that talk ot houses, cooking and babies
(which used to bore me stift) has taken
on a strange new fascination ... I have
chosen the warm but lovely month of July
(the 20th)." In an earlier letter Katie
wrote, "I'm having a fine time in Philadel-
phia and have seen most of the S. B. gals
from our class. Sally Melcher Jarvis lives

Spring 1957

in a cute ranch house in Wayne with
three children, but still haJ time to have
me out to dinner with Ellie Clement Little-
ton (1946) and Blair Biirwell May who
also lives in Wayne. I've also seen Emily
Thornton Forte, also a Wayne resident —
it seems to be the young marrieds' haven
(AND my home town — C. Y. McG.).
Emilie has two children (a boy and a girl)
and is taking a Shakespeare course at night
to keep her mind from going to pot, as
she puts it. Polly Pliimmer Mackie and
Ruth Garrett Preucel live in the center of
the city. I've seen Ruthie, who's well
established in the back of an old brown-
stone in a wonderful apartment with fire-
place and private terrace. Ruthie practically
runs Philadelphia. She's found out so much
about it that she's running the Junior
League course for Philadelphia girls to tell
them about their fair city. She and Polly
both have one child apiece (boys)." Katie
enclosed a letter from Beth Jjnsmj Gorter
who wrote (on Nov. 12), "I shall get
married November 24th, in Amsterdam.
Dutch fashion, i. e. twice! once civil cere-
mony and afterwards in church, all on the
same day, starting at 11:00 a.m. My fiance
is a doctor and specializing in psychiatry.
He is working at LItrecht University Clinic
and usually terribly busy. We have a
wonderful apartment in Utrecht (I/2 hour
by car from A'dani) and I am busy deco-
rating it. I gave up my secretarial job on
November first but will look for another
job closer to my new home after we get
back from the honeymoon (to a Spanish
island in the Mediterranean). My father
visited S. B. C. last year for the first time
and boy! did he like it, almost as much
as I used to."

Kitty Hart Belew returned from her
honeymoon at Sea Island, Ga., raving about
Stevie Steven < Webb's wedding in Charles-
ton. Trust Kitty not to miss a trick even
while on her honeymoon ! Stevie wore Pres-
ton Hodges Hill's lovely lace wedding veil
that they bought while together in Europe.
Pres and Bunny B.irnett Brown were brides-
maids.

Frances Pope Evans sent me the Colum-
bus, Miss., newspaper clippings of her wed-
ding, and she was a beautiful bride, her
dress very ante bellum, which suits Frances
so well. Minii Pouell Leonard was in the
wedding. From the newspapers: "The long-
time prominence of the families involved,
the numbers and prestige of the wedding
guests from all sections of the nation, the
brilliance of the wedding and subsequent
reception combined to make the marriage
one of the major social events of the Fall
season in Mississippi." Frances and Isham
are now living in Houston, Texas, where
Isham is with the McCormic Steel Company.

Marie Mu5g,rove Pierce wrote me the
day Libby True hart Harris' twins were born:
"Big news — Libby T. Harris presented her
husband with twin baby girls this morning.
Stopped in her hospital room this morning
(am doing Red Cross Motor Corps work)
to see her and she and Hiter are just para-
lyzed ! Don't know if they are identical yet.
Each weighed 5'/2 lbs. She didn't have the
faintest idea she was going to have twins!"
Congratulations to Libby on producing our
first class twins.

Quite a bit of news from Christmas
cards. Understand that Ellen Ramsay Clark
moved to Stuyvesant Town, N. Y., last

fall in time for the arrival of her little
boy. Alice Diilatiey Sheridan comments
on the photo-card of all the Sheridans (two
boys and two girls): "This is our crowd
minus dogs, cat, fish, turtles (we gave the
Easter chick away — he was a full grown
rooster, still sleeping in the kitchen). No
ponies yet but we hear it constantly."

From Marilyn Hopkins Bamborough:
"David is 4 and Sara 2 years. We had a re-
union with Mary Fran Broivii Ballard last
August when they came for a visit with
M. F.'s mother. Sally Strickland Johnson
came up for a weekend at the time, too.
E. Lee Kag,ey Lee wrote that they have a
new daughter, Eva Joye, born in November.
Virginia is 61/2. Tommy 4 and Julie 3."
And Flip Eustis wrote, "I left Chicago
in August and have been a lady of leisure
since. We (she and her parents) have
moved into a smaller house which is just
darling. Mom and I are having a wonderful
time — it has been so long since I have
really been at home. Will return to work
sometime, somewhere, but am not giving
much thought to it at the moment."

A pleasant surprise was a card from
Betty Bean Black who said, "I've been
married and in Houston, Texas, for five
years — and loving both happy states ! My
Dub is a bank vice-president weekdays —
but every Friday we dash off to our ranch
and have a glorious time in the East Texas
woods — no electricity, no plumbing ! Our
family are all of the four-legged variety
so far — horses, cattle, sheep and goats.
Afraid I've reverted to type in this wild
west business! " Pat Brown is still teaching
2nd grade at Grace Church School in New
■^'ork City and hoped to visit Libby and the
twins during her Christmas vacation. Betty
W'elljord Bennett wrote from Baltimore
that she spent an afternoon recently with
Dot Wallace Wood and that her baby was
so cute — tiny and dark, but she ommitted
sex, name and age. She also said that
Jackie Jacobs Buttram has another daughter.

June Eager Finney was full of news in
her card: "Bill and I are both pretty well
settled here in Durham, N. C, and will
be here until July, I960, when Bill will
have completed his training in neurosur-
gery. I am working as Director of Chris-
tian Education at an Episcopal Church
here and enjoy it a lot. Am also going to
be tutoring children in remedial reading.
We had our third son last May — running
a close race with Foamy (Anne Fiery
Bryan). Kind of amusing to both of us
when we have called or written each other
about each expected child and found that
we were both producing at the same time
— and both have had three boys, to boot.
Susan Corning, Whitla is living in Welles-
ley now and has two, a boy and a girl."
Dot Bottom Gilkey wrote Kitty Hart Belew
that Langdon has been commissioned to do
a book, and that he will be giving Religious
Emphasis at Sweet Briar in Feb. They have
obtained a 28 ft. sloop for use in Maine.
The McGehees, Caroline, Garden and Ste-
phen, have just recovered from a bout with
the chickenpox which started Christmas
Day, and poor Coleman has been nurse-
maid and housewife for the past month
(thank heaven he'd had it). We are going
to Roanoke this weekend ( Feb. 1 ) to visit
Marie Musgrore and Bill Pierce, and I
should have lots of news, but I fear it

will have to wait until the next issue —
deadline, you know.

Many, many thanks to all of you who
wrote, and keep up the good work. I would
very much appreciate your sending me
birth announcements, even if you haven't
time to write letters, so we can keep our
vastly expanding new generation straight
at least.

1950

President: Elizabkth Todd (Mrs. Joseph

D. Landen), 1211 Herschel Woods Lane,
Cmcinnati 26, Ohio.

Secretary: Frances Cone (Mrs. Andrew
B. Kirkpatrick, Jr.), 1 Westover Circle,
Wilmington 6, Del.

Fund Agent: Marie Gilliam (Mrs. R.
Hunter Park), 611 McDaniel Ave., Green-
ville, S. C.

Many thanks for the news (some of
which arrived just a little too late for my
last letter) and for the Christmas cards.

New brides are: Kay Lang, who married
Carleton Bartlett Gibson III on Oct. 20;
Winifred "Frendy" Burden who married
John Nelson Gronen on Dec. 19; Katherine
"Kata" Edwards who married E. B. Crane
in November; Fan Lewis who married Dr.
Joseph H. Jackson, Jr., on Sept. 24. The
last two items came from Margaret Lewis
Furse. Kata went to Bennington from
S. B. C. and then to Katherine Gibbs.

E. B. is a friend of Margaret's and her
husband, Austen. Fan visited the Furses
in Sept., and while there, she and Joseph
were married in the Furses' church with
Margaret as Fan's only attendant. They will
live in Shreveport where Joseph is interning.

New babies are: Melinda Beth, born
Nov. 18 to Bonnie Loyd and David Crane;
Julia, born Sept. 1 1 to Peachey Lillard and
Bill Manning; Stuart Ashburn, born Oct.
5 to B. G. Elmore and Guy Gilleland;
Douglas Frederick, born Oct. 13 to Kay
Leroy and Wally Wing; Sarah Luscombe,
born Feb. 25, 1956, to Ginger Luscombe
and Justin Rogers; Franny and Kathy, born
Nov. 9 to Frances Martin and Harvey
Lindsay. These are the first twins, so far
as I know, in our class ! Frances says that
"they don't look a thing alike. "

I received a wonderful Christmas card
message from John W. Davison, who was
the husband of Marian Holmes, and I wish
to share it with you:
Dear Mrs. Kirkpatrick:

During the months immediately after
Marian's death, many of her classmates and
other friends from Sweet Briar wrote to me
to express their sympathy. During that time
I was continually moving and unable to
answer them, and many of the cards and
notes became misplaced and Marian's ad-
dress file has become a hopeless mess. I
would like to ask you to extend my ap-
preciation through your class column and
my belated wishes for a Happy Christmas-
tide and New Year to you all.

I should also like to report, to all who are
interested, on our daughter, Kathryn, who
is blossoming into a real young lady and
is the image of her mother. Not so much
in physical characteristics, but she has at-
titudes and expressions and shows the signs
of the same charm and grace which made
Marian so well-loved. She is a real credit
to her mother. I am stationed at Quonset

Alumnae News

Point. Rhode Island, in an Airborne Early
Warning Squadron (carrier based), and
JKne been so fortunate as to have Kathy
with rut. I would like someday to introduce
Kathy to you all, as Marian was very proud
of her and had hoped to show her off at
the earliest opportunity.

Very truly yours.

John W. Davison, Jr.

Lt, (jfi) U. S. N.

VAW-12, USNAS

Quonset Point, R. I.

Bettye W'ri^hl and Tom Schneider now
have three children. Lynn. 5V2. Tommy.
J>\2- and Bobby, I'/,. EliHabeth "Bookie"
Coryell and Jack Feldmann have three
dau^jhters, Elizabeth Jane, 512, Kathryn
Coryell, 2', j, and a youn,i;cr dau>;hter about
I'l. Cora Jane A\nyiihifiU.ir and Robert
Spiller ha\e two children, Janey, -t. and
Bobby, 1' 2- Robert is a captain in the Army,
teaching ROTC at Lafayette College in
Easton, Pa. Mary "Tree" Ljiiiii.iii and Lew
Brown have moved to Rochester. N. Y.
Dottie Barney and Jack Hoover are happy
over being in Darien, Conn. Dottie saw-
Marianne DeLiciirle Holland last fall. Dot-
tie Mnii/JX""' 'ind Imre Cholnokey are set-
tled in Cireenwich. Conn., for good. Dolly
CLirk and John Rasmussen sailed on the
V . S. S. Geiier.il M.ir/iii from San Francisco
on Aug. 30 for Yokosuka, Japan, where
John will be at the Naval Repair Facility.
They will be there two or three years.
Dolly sounded very excited and promised
more news from the Orient. From the east
to the west, where Edith Brnnke and Peyton
Robertson are in Paris for a two-year tour
with the Marines. Edie wants anyone pas-
sing through to look her up. Peyton's num-
ber is Princess 4800. extension 7201. They
have already had trips to Belgium and
Spain. Nancy Day was working at the Har-
\ard Business School last year on a special
project. Last summer she took a six-weeks'
course in interior design at Parsons in New
York. She sees Bonnie Lnyd and Dave Crane
often in Boston. Mini W'yse and Link
I.insky and daughter. Keith. 2. have bought
a house in Lorraine. Ohio. On vacation last
summer Mini saw "fellow fifties." She
talked to Pat Halloran. who is working
rn 'Wall Street in New York and rooming
with Anne Peyton, who works for Time.
Mini spent the day in Rye. N. Y., with
Genevieve Hummel Gees. Genevieve has
three children. Chris, 'i. Timmy. 3' 2. and
Priscilla. 2. Mini took a flying visit to Judi
C.iiiiphell Campbell's Fifth Avenue apart-
ment and saw Judi's little boy. Duncan.
Mary Dame Slubht and Doug Broad have
a son. Doug, Jr., 1. They have a sail boat
on which they spend a lot of time, although
as Mary Dame puts it. it is like taking
a busman's holiday since Doug is a harbor
pilot! They have a lot on Blackbeard's
Point (overlooking Hampton Roads where
Blackbeard's head was displayed as a warn-
ing to all pirates) on which they plan to
build this spring. Mary Dame says that in
spite of the gory detail, the view is won-
derful ! She wrote that Frances "Binkie"
Mjrr and Johnny Dillard have a second
girl. Mary Marr.

The only new news about Andy and me
is that we have bought a house — very small,
but very cute. Come to see us I But if you
can't do that— 'WRITE ! Next deadline is
May 15.

Kate and Conway, children of Mary Pease
Fleming, '51g.

1951

Prcudenl: Mary Street (Mrs. George E.
Ml nt.igue), 3900 Abingdon Road, Char-
lotte, N. C.

Secretary: Jean Randolph (Mrs. Alan
Martin Bruns), 210 Sunset Avenue, Char-
lottesville, 'Va.

Fidid Ajieiit: Ann Mountcastle (Mrs.
Robert S. Gamble), 65 Carter St., New
Canaan, Conn.

Six years out of college and I am still
happy around the end of each January be-
cause I'm not faking exams. Thanks to
Christmas card gleanings — mine and other
peoples — we have news aplenty this time.
The main and only item from the Bruns
menage is that Alan is now city editor of
The Daily Progrest. He enjoys the new
work but the sedentary life is ruining his
waistline.

Ann Mi/unlcaslte Gamble passed along
these bits of information. Jim and Patty
Carliii Selvage had their second son, Craig
Carlin, last September. Mary Ed Daniels
Lowry and her husband and two daughters
are living in New Canaan where Mary Ed
is head of staff aids for the Red Cross.
Kitty Arp and Bob Waterman's last vaca-
ti( n included visits to Annie Moo and
to Barbara Bin Dow and Joan Dans War-
ren, both in Bryn Mawr. Pa. Joan's new
daughter. Greer Trotter, was born in No-
vember.

Pinkie Barringer and Tom "^X'ornham
are now in Chula Vista, Calif., and Tom
is stationed at Coronado teaching amphib-
ious warfare. They have bought a house
and expect to be there three years. They
have two daughters. Another Navy couple.
Margery Davidson and Ed Rucker. now at
Portsmouth, Va.. will soon be headed out
of the Navy and to Boston probably for
a residency there.

Jody Kiiehnle and Ivan Kaufman are in
Amherst. Mass.. where Ivan works for the
college and for the Episcopal Church. Cindy
\\")inan and Dcrsey Richardson are now in
New Orleans where Dorsey's company.
Cook's Travel Service, opened a new otiicc
of which he is manager. Their d.uighter.
Melanie Cushing, was born last August.
Elizabeth Cooke McCann writes that she
has two children, age 3 and 2. and is work-
ing as secretary and legislative clerk to
Virginia Congressman Joel T. Broyhill.
They live in Alexandria and Bren is an
engineer in 'Washington.

Ruth Clarksori Costello sent along a
letter from Lynne McCiilloiinh Holconibe,
who was up to her ears in "string quartets
on alternate Tuesday nights, symphony on
alternate Mondays, and on the other Tues-
days, teach 'til 9 on Wednesdays." She
reported that Janet Fiillon and John Evans
have bought a new house in Houston.

Rodes Eaill Coleman wrote that her hus-
band is doing some work this year in an
architect's office along with his studies.
They are living in Berkeley. Calif., but
were home last summer for Louise Cole-
man's wedding to Archer Jones and again
for Christmas. The Jones are living in
Washington now.

M. J. Eriksen and Gardner Ertman have
a son, Eric Gardner, born last October.
They are still in Cambridge. Ruthies fall
travels included a trip east where she visited
Sue Lockley and Ned Glad, who are hunt-
ing for a house in Manhattan. She lunched
with Joan Vail, who heads southward in
March for her marriage to Jack Thorn, a
Marine now and lawyer later. Ruthie and
Peggy Chisholm Boxley will represent us
at the wedding.

Seymour's post-Christmas note included
the news that Dick and Mary Emery Barn-
hill have a new apartment in Peter Cooper
Village, in New S'ork. She says Jean 5/./-
plelon and Burge Hellier are building a
new house (they are Connecticut dwellers)
and that Sue Taylor and Bob Li 1 ley have
a new son. born last winter (not so new
really) and a new house. Anne ]'an Norden
and Charles McDuftey are now living on
East End Avenue in New York City.

Diane Richmond Simpson and her hus-
band have a new son. Charles Blair Rich-
nirnd. born Dec. 8. They are in Florida
where KMI is in winter quarters and hope
the Gambles will be there for a \isit. Anne
Adams and Lewin Wethered have bought
a 50-year old house in Baltimore where he
is an attorney. They have one son.

The great white bird visited Ruth Mag,ee
and Walt Peterson in St. Louis in January
and deposited Charles Reuben. I'rsula
Reimer and Hank Van Andi moved in
December to their new house in Menlo
Park. Calif. He is doing research at Cali-
fornia Packing Co. Debbie McClure and
Francis Moritz have a third child, a son.
born in October. Chloe Mason is working
in Durham where her brother-in-law and
sister are now living. Carol R-lston and
S-^nny Toulmin went to Rome. N. Y.. for
Christmas with her family. She writes that
Nedra Greer and Ben Stimpson will build
a house this spring at Sprini; Hill outside
Mobile. Susan Oi/randtr and Lloyd Hood
have a si n. born last summer.

St. Clair Hayden, home from her year
abroad and teaching at Shepherd Knapp
School in Boylston. Mass.. went home to
Lruisiana for Christmas. M'>nna Simpion
and George McClellan are building a house
— literally. She carries nails and he reads
the directions and pounds. The Paint and
Patchc. scenery work comes in handy, she
says. ^X'inl,'field Ellis is working in the
Atlanta office of Merrill Lynch. Pierce.
Fenner and Beane. She loves the brokerage
business and I have always loved the name
of that firm. Joan Hess is now assistant
editor of the American Artist Magazine.
Caria de Creny and Bernard Levin had a
son last summer.

Muff' Marti and Bud Herbruik adopted

Spring 1957

a three-week old son last June. Joan Moller
and George Anderson fall into the new
house category. And the Ohrstroms — Mary
Miirchison and Richard — had a tour of
Europe recently.

My roommate, Julie Micou. is now decked
out with a San Francisco address. What
happened was this: she went out to visit
her brother. Paul, last summer, went home,
quit her job, packed all her possessions in
her Volkswagen, and "rushed out here to
stay." Brother Paul obligingly got married
and she took his garret apartment with
built-in view of the bay. Between trips to
Palm Springs and to the mountains for
skimg, she does cancer research at the
Institute at the University of California
Medical School. She had talked to Mary
Ky.ii/i Pierson, who has a new son, and Ann
Sinsheimer. Mary Kraus is really a charter
member of an ever-growing club of 1951
class members who have "went West."

Ed. Note; We have received a clipping
about Joan MjUory Pease of Camden, S. C.
She was stricken with polio 7 years ago,
a few weeks after the birth of her only
child, Stephan. and she has been in an iron
lung e\er since. She urges adults to have
the Salk shots to protect themselves. We
are sure her classmates have the deepest
sympathy for her in her illness.

1952

Secretary: Jane Roseberry (Mrs. John A.
Ewald. Jr.), 149 Wellington Rd., 'Garden
City, L. I., N. Y.

Fund Agent: Mary Bailey (Mrs. John
Izzard, Jr.), Apt. 27, 3181 Mathieson Dr.,
N.E., Atlanta, Ga.

Greetings and Happy Springtime, Ladies:

Though this is written in the ice and
snow, ycu will probably read it about the
time you are ready to paint the yard furni-
ture in the basement or buy a silly hat for
the first pretty day. All of this brings to
mind Spring at Sweet Briar and how beauti-
ful it will be this June, when we get there
for our fifth reunion! Can you believe it?
So much water has gone over the dam and
there is so much to catch up on ! Do start
making your plans now so it can be a
super-special reunion; apply for time off
from boss or husband, line up the baby
sitters, and make this a "must."

Those ever - welcome Christmas cards
brought a few tid-bits of news to pass on
to you. Bobby Reich Van Kirk and Bruce
are going into their third year in Park
Forest, III., and have two daughters now,
Karen and Holly. Leila Booth Morris re-
ports a wonderful summer at West Point
with Johnny and Joan Stewart Hinton, and
Nancy Hinton Russell and Walt, and all
their collective children. The Morris family
is still in Ft. Leavenworth and Jim will
graduate from his school there on June
15th. Meanwhile, Leila is taking a tailoring
course and teaching Sunday School. She had
seen Peggy And en on Ashford in New York
last April, Doug is getting his Ph. D. in
June at Princeton and then they are off to
parts unknown, complete with Elizabeth
Ann. born last May 25.

Carolyn BLick Underwood and Roger
have said "good-by" to the government
and in September they moved to Ravens-
wood, W. Va., where Roger has a position
in the Management Engineering Division
of Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp.

It's a huge new plant on the Ohio and while
there are less than 3,000 people there now,
there will be 20,000 when the project is
finished. At present, they have found some
good friends and are enjoying small town
living after Washington.

Nancy H.imel Clark writes in glowing
terms of their son, Blake, Jr., born August
8. She and Blake have seen a good deal of
Pat Pannill Mebane and Allan and she
writes that Janet Graham is in Berkeley,
Calif., studying on a Commonwealth Fund
Grant. Nancy also tells me that Robbin
McGiiry Ramey and Bob have been trans-
ferred to Timberlake near Lynchburg, Va.

Henry and Mary Gregory, children of Mary
Gregory Plumb deButts, '52g.

Polly Plumb deButts wrote that she was
a bridesmaid for Casey and said that the
wedding was beautiful. Polly is teachin.?
2nd grade in Charlottesville along with
taking a Journalism course and she and
Henry gave little Henry a baby sister
February 19th (1956) . . . Mary Gregory.

Nancy Morrov.' Lovell and Mac had a
son, W. McKaig Lovell, Jr., July 23 in Mt.
Lebanon, Pa. ... "a real darling with a
full head of red hair." The Lovells are
fixing up their house in Dormont, outside
Pittsburgh, where Mac is working on the
Shippingport Atomic Power Reactor Station,
the first civilian project for peacetime use
of atomic power. Bob Whitney, Nancy Ann
Moore's (x'52) husband, is in Mac's office
so they see a good deal of each other. The
Whitneys have a little boy, Larry, who'll
be a year old soon.

New addresses; Carroll Morgan Legge
and Allan, 1063 Beaconsfield Ave., Grosse
Pointe 30, Mich., and Bob and Norma
Jansen Phalen and little Molly have moved
to 2034 Thilenius, Cape Girardeau, Mo.

We see and talk to Keir Henley Donald-
son and Scottie often, and they are most
intrigued with their cute young son, Mat-
thew Joseph II, born Nov. 19th. Keir says
Lelie jenkim and Clare Draper were mar-
ried in Birmingham on December 8, and
are living in New York now, skiing in
Vermont on week-ends.

Susan Hobson McCord has been substi-
tute teaching in New York a little, plus
taking care of little Mary Marshall. She
tells me Alice Sanders Marvin and Chuck
are living in Wazatta, Minn., a suburb of
Detroit (sounds strange, but that's what

they tell me!) Neil and Clara McDonald
Bass are out of the Navy now and living
in Memphis where Neil is an architect.

Ginge Sheaff Liddel and Bob write that
they moved into their house in Riverside,
Conn., two years ago in April, and last
April 29 had a baby boy, Robert Lee, Jr.
She says Janis Thomas Hawk and Jim also
had a boy last June and are living in Bir-
mingham. Freddie Collins Brister and Jim
are in Richmond.

I talked with Sue Bassewitz Shapiro
recently. She and Lewis are home from
France and are living in Great Neck, Long
Island, where Lewis commutes to his work
at the Skin and Cancer Hospital in New
York. Sue says Pat Rufpert Flanders and
David had a little girl, Cynthia Ann, on
Jan. 2. Also in the blessed event department
are Sally Clay and Glenville Giddings who
produced Alexa Clay last Aug. 1 3th !

Kenny and Katie Babcock Mountcastle,
with newest daughter, Laura, born Sept.
9th, have moved to Nolan Lane, Darien,
Conn., and are very enthusiastic about their
new house.

Jake and I took in the inauguration in
January and had a glorious time. We saw
Shug Gregory, whose engagement to Foster
Petit (from Lexington, Ky.) was an-
nounced the end of December. Shug and
Foster are planning to be wed in Mayfield
April 15th and will live in Charlottesville
where Foster is finishing up his second
year in Law School. Becky Yerks was in
Washington for the festivities and then came
on to New York for a few days, spending a
little time with us. She looked wonderful
and is giving up her job doing public rela-
tions for the Jacksonville Symphony.

While we were in D. C, I talked with
Lynn Mitchell and Skip Riddick. They've
bought a house in Chevy Chase and are
busy painting and fixing up, and keeping
up with Sally and Ann.

That's all for now, I'm afraid, but here's
hoping we'll see you, come June 3rd!

1953

President: Mrs. Charles J. Nager, Jr,
(Kathleen Bailey), 12 Van Dyke Apts.,
Netherlands Village, Schenectady, New
York.

Secretary: Nan O'Keeffe, 12 Hawks Hill
Road. New Canaan, Conn., and 109 East
79th Street, New York 21, N. Y.
Fund Agent: VIRGINIA Hudson, 83 Pleas-
ant St., Apt. 1, So. Weymouth 90, Mass.

Greetings, ladies. Happy New Year and
all that sort of thing. I loved all your
Christmas cards and notes; thanks so much.

Before starting on news, here are some
interesting statistics that might be of in-
terest. 42 of our 74 graduates are married;
at the moment 2 are engaged; there are 28
children, with Connie Werly Wakelee lead-
ing in this department with three, since her
twins. Holly and Ann, were born Dec.
29th! "i'oung Jeft' is mighty proud of his
little sisters. Connie and Da\e are living
in West Hartford, Conn.

Heart': and Flowers Dept: Cathy Munds
is engaged to Ben Storek, who is with
W. R. Grace Co. in New York. They will
be married April 27 in Wilmington, Del,
Marion McMurray will marry Rev. Thomas
Vanderslice from Chicago. He is at the
Episcopal Church of St. John the Evange-
list in Flossmoor, III. Midge Chace is en-

AliiDinae News

gaged to William Powell anJ plans a May
wedding. Best wishes to all the fiances!

Nov. 3 was the wedding date for Court-
ney Willard and Ford Conger, and also
Ginny Dun lap and Tom Shelton. Caroline
A\o(iJi Ri herts was Ginny's matron of
honor, Betsy Pjriull McMnurry was there.

Jay Wells married Tom Rodgcrs, and is
living in Houston, Texas. Sara Ironmonger
and Jack Grier were married Aug. 18; he
is a lawyer in Norfolk, Va., and Sara is
teaching school. Pat Marshall will be mar-
ried in April to a science teacher in Denver.
His first name is Lloyd, but my information
source didn't give me the last name.

The Niiitct) Dt'l'/.: Connie's twins ha\e
dominated the baby scene somewhat! Isn't
it exciting.' There are several other new
additions to report, however. Eleanor Hirsch
Baer and Ben named their wee one Ben III.
He arrived on Dec. 4th. Sallie G.iyle and
Bob Beck had their second, a little girl,
on Dec. 12. June Gayle Beck — pretty name,
Betty Thijiii.ii Mclhaine and Larry became
parents in Dec, I believe. It was a boy.

Other progeny not aforementioned in this
column are Polly Hcji^i.' Carpenter's Mary
Catherine, born in Aug, '^^. She and Dcrr
are living in Baton Rouge, La, Betty Aioi^re
Baker and Rex have a little boy nicknamed
Mac, but named for his Daddy, He is about
a year old. By the next issue, there will be
several more kiddies to report!

Jtjh Notes: Janie Coll/iii Kilburn is
teaching remedial readin.g in Rockford, III.
Dorothea Fuller will leave Canada and her
attache job in June to return to the States.

A funny note from Toni Le'Varn reported
that she was writing for Scripps-Howard
newspapers (one story a week) and at the
same time was being sued by an unmen-
tioned per.so.n or persons for an article she
wrote a year ago! My, my. A budding
^X'alter VC'inchell in our midst.

Kay Amsden got her MS degree in phys.
ed. from Smith and is now teaching at Earl-
ham College in Richmond. Ind. Jane West-
brook is working in the neurolo.gy depart-
ment of the Albany Hospital, and our own
almost full-fledged doctor. Jean Felty, is
ready for internship. She is now doing
clinical work and pediatrics.

Heard that Harriette Hod,ges is workin.g
in Chica.go, Jane Perry has temporarily
given up the South and is in New York,
changing j<bs at the moment. Nancy Bnwar
Andrews and Dave are still in New York.
Their Lynda is two. David will go to Belle-
vue for one year of general surgical
residency, then to Presbyterian Hospital
for 3 years of orthopedics.

Suhiirhi.i Di'l'l.: Janie D.iinon Mud-
wilder and Bob have bought a yummy
home — split level — in Park Forest, 111,, and
will move in March. Also amongst the
home-owners are Caroline Aioudy Roberts
and Bill who have a hou.se in Sewickly
Heights. Pa. C-Iine sounds mighty do-
mestic to me!

January 27th was a red letter day for
Anne Kirkiey Ervin because that was the
date that Tate got out of the Navy after
three years. They returned to Morgantown,
N. C. and started building a home.

Tidiet Del'l.: Kat/y went down to Cuba
in Dec, to meet CJ after his Navy cruise;
they had a glorious week in Havana,

So many of you asked about me I Was
touched to the core! Right this very minute
I am packing and typing at the same time.

Mary Dallis Johnson lones. '54g, with Paul,
Jr.. and their new son. Paul III.

Am going to Stowe. Vt,. to ski this week-
end ! Great fun. That is why this may seem
more harried than usual. As far as my job
goes, I am still in personnel at J, Walter
Thompson, and lo\e even' frantic minute
of it; it is really a busy little spot, and
working overtime is just taken for granted!
Does keep one out of too much mischief,
however! Otherwise. I go skiing whenever
possible, and am generally having a ball.
Can't wait until June. 1958. when we all
go back to reunion. That will be one for
the books, to quote a phrase,

L'ntil then, don't forget the Alumnae
Fund and Ginnie Hudson who is sitting
up in Massachusetts with her list and her
envelope for money clutched in her little
hand. She, by the way, is doing a ,t>reat
job. Must get in a plug for her!

Alumnae like The HISTORY
Jo Nelson Booze, '53, writes: "You are
so right — the bool-. is interesting from start
to iinish."

1954

Pielld'-nl: MARGARET MoHLMAN, 165 East

35th Street, New York, N, Y,

Secretiiry: Jane R. Keating. 329 East 5Sth

Street, New York. N. Y.

Fund Agent: Faith Rah.mer, 165 East 35tli

Street. New York. N.'^'.

At random; Kay McLau,ghlin is teaching
third grade at the Maumee Valley Country
Day School in Ti>ledo, and loves it. She
ran into Ellie Vorys at the Ohio Bar
Association meeting; grand time had by
both. Peggy Eu\irt and Bill Boggs have
been transferred from Pittsburgh and have
moved out to Evanston, Illinois, Joy and
Charlie Eldredge have a new home in South
Bend, Ind,, and their daughter, Lisa, now a
year old. is a wonder to behold, Mary Bal-
lard writes that she is now (and has been
since 1951) Mrs, John C. Ward. Jr.. and the
mother of Elizabeth. -4. and John III. 2.
Mary and John are living in Lexington.
Ky„ and John is finishing his Masters at
the L'niversity.

Liz Culler and Roy Hoffman have built
a new home in Birmin.gham, and children
Holly and Mark complete the family. Joyce
W.ihinle) Wellford and husband Bev have
recently moved to Wilmington, Joyce said

she saw Meri and Walt Major at Virginia
Beach recently, and of course she raved
about Meri's pickles ! Mag Andrews is get-
ting bylines in the Charlottesville paper . . .
next stop. AVir Yoik Times! Jean Gillespie
and George Walker have another young
man in the family: George. Jr. He arrived
last April, but that's the way news travels
these days !

Anne Sheffield writes that after writing
copy in the advertising dept, of Rich's Dept,
Store in Atlanta, she is now in graduate
school at Emory and plans to teach,

Alice Haidinfi Correa and husband Leonel
are living in Washington with children
Lindsay. 2, and Rene, 3 months, Alice said
she'd heard from Karen Lnukey Hyde who
has recently become the mother of Tim,
Jr, Also according to Alice, Mar)' Ann Rohb
is currently working for her Dad m the
real estate business, Jean ALinning and Bill
Morrissey have a son. Bill, Jr. They are
still in Washington, and Jean reports that
Lanni Carney and husband Bernard de
Langavant (now living in Mass.) have 2
young ones: Laure and Jean Jacques. Joy
Bennett and Danny Hartshorn are also liv-
ing in Mass,, and have a wee one, Heidi
Stevens, born on No\ . 3.

Jane Berf^uido and Tom Abbott have
bought a house in Dedham, Mass., and are
most excited about it. Billy Isdale is en-
gaged, but (my apologies) I don't know
his name — more on this later, Nanci Hay
got married last month, and I do know
hts name: Bill Mahoney. another BBDO
advertisin,g genius, and a wonderful guy !
Ann Collins Teachout and husband Bill
had a fabulous honeymoon in Hawaii and
are now having open house in San Fran-
cisco . . . West Coast, anyone,'

Vaughan and Tay-y-ylor have added
Taylor Morrissette, Jr., to society-at-large,
and 1 understand he's heavenly ! Another
new mother in our midst is none other
than Dilly Johnson Jones! G. Paul, III,
was born recently — all of which brings
up quite a story. It seems that Paul, Jr..
has been bragging for years that he could
win all the loot on the TV show "Name
That Tune, " Dilly listened to him long
enough, and finally, unbeknownst to Paul,
wrote the show's producers and told them
all about Paul, their courtship and marriage,
and also sent them a medley of .songs to
be used as part of the quiz. The producers
got so entranced by this fair Georgia-
Mother-To-Be-Cracker that they picked Dilly
instead of Paul to be on the show. Well,
to make a long story c\en more involved.
Dilly couldn't come to NYC because of the
baby. The MC of the shovv. however, gave
weekly reports on the stork's progress, and
finally had Paul appear. 2 days after the
baby was born. Picture of Mother-and-son
shown on screen. In the meantime, their
fellow-contestants in all this decided to
split their earnings with the Jones, and
finally, on the last go-round (the ante was
now a cool $25,000). Dilly. Paul and The
Third arrived on the scene — or more speci-
fically, on the set. They won. too! Ruth
frye Deaton and I had dinner with them
before the show, and at last report, mother,
father, baby, and CBS-TV all doing fine!

I spent a grand week-end recently with
Bruce W'jits and Bill Krucke, Bruce's bro-
ther Beau was up from Virginia Beach — •
just like old home week, Bruce and Bill's
son Carl is the current love-of-niy-life!

Spring 1957

Bruce said she'd seen Margaret Jones
Steuart and daughter Elizabeth recently.
They're now in 'VX'ashin.gton with Guy.
^iore later, and Send Money To Faith!

1955

President: Nancy Anderson, 18 1 Hudson
St., Hudson, O.

Secretary: Amanda McThenia, The Ce-
dars, Alderson, 'W. 'Va.
Fund Agent: Catherine Cage, 1002 Sul
Ross, Houston, Tex.

Hey there — here I am again with a big
thanks to Jane Lindsey for doing the fall
issue and "merci" to all you who sent news.
I am back on home soil and sorry to report
not too much news. After a great Christmas
I began a career which I hope will be short-
lived. Running a large house with no help
plus nursing two sick "ain't" much fun!
However, Dad is well. Mother is in the hos-
pital and I've learned to cook. When I land-
ed in New York on Dec. 1, I saw Ethel
Green and Chase Lane who are living with
Jane Feltus. Ethel is with a publishing com-
pany. Chase is in the psychiatric ward of a
hospital — working, that is — and Jane is still
in drama. Barbara McLamb and I chatted
for half an hour but she didn't get fired from
McCann-Erikson. 'Wandering over to Rich-
mond, I found Betty Danjord Molster and
Chuck having lots of fun with young Chuck,
and Peggy Vest "Valentine and Hank with
a brand new girl, Margaret. Anne Taylor
has announced her engagement to John
Snider of Charleston, and they will say their
vows about the same time Meta Space and
Ben Moore walk down the aisle in Savan-
nah. Chase and Ethel are to head south for
the festivities and rumor has it that if Pres-
ton Stockton gets back from duck hunting,
she will also be in Savannah. Pam Compton
is to marry Hudnall "Ware this summer and
will join the other '55'ers in Richmond.
Over Charlottesville way — Andy "Wallace
is still with 'WCH'V and has a program
every morning on Homaker's Hints. Gail
Djiidson Baserie and John have settled in
the fair city where John is with the in-
surance firm Knox-TurnbuU Associates and
Gail is receptionist at 'WCH'V. Sue Seward
has a brand new Austin-Healey to take her
back and forth to her work with an archi-
tect in Petersburg. The Nation's Capital
has claimed a large number of 1955. Nancy
Douthat, Pat Tucker and Joan Gualtieri
have a house in Georgetown. Nancy and
Joan are with "the government" and Pat
is secretary at the National Academy.
Shirley Sutliff is curator at Mount Vernon,
Gretchen Armstrong with U. S. News and
World Report, Pam Compton and Anne
■Williams with C. I. A., "Vida Radin doing
graduate work at American University
since "Facts" for whom she was reporting
folded. Gay Reddig in Law School at
Georgetown, and Didi Stoddard teaching
English at Madeira and of course directing
freshman plays. Ginger Chamblin is wait-
ing for Mardi Gras in New Orleans and
gets her M. S. in Chemistry in June. Fritz
Merriman is with the Playhouse in Erie,
Pa. She lives with a Phys. Ed. teacher.

Kathleen Button Ginn. L. H. and daugh-
ter "Scotty" are still in Puerto Rico, Mary
Langs Holecamp and Mac are in Webster
Groves, Mo., and have a new daughter,
Elizabeth Moore, making a total of three.
Bar Plamp Hunt and George report Wyo-

ming as really the "wonderful West"!
Joan Fankhauser is teaching elementary
grades in Cincinnati and planning a trip
to South America this summer. Remember,
'55'ers, if you want to see and read the
Alumnae Magazine, send your checks
to Catherine. If you would go to look at
the new dorm as I did, you'd really get
the urge to "build up the fund."

1956

President: Joyce Lenz, Sunset Hill, Boyce

Avenue, Ruxton 4, Md.

Secretary: CATHERINE LoTTERHOS, 905

Pinehurst St., Jackson, Miss.

Fund Agent: Kay Smith, 2205 Kentmere

Parkway, Wilmington, Del.

Being the orderly and highly organized
person that I am, I immediately categorized
the class of '56 into four groups: those who
have some European connection; or, those
who live in Boston; or, those who are
teaching school; or, . . . those who are
exceptions to the first three.

I will begin with some of the exceptions,
since actually they seem to outnumber cate-
gories 1. 2, and 3. The young housewives
of '56 have scattered from coast to coast,
and of them I have gleaned the following
news: "Virginia Nelson Self and Henry
have a son, Peyton; Marty Field Carroll
and Charlie have a daughter, Mary Ellen;
Nancy Genzmer Detrick and John have a
daughter, Taylor, a dog, Mike, and a cat,
Octa'vio; Ann Marie Jacobson Shramko and
Sam have a daughter. Carol; and Jane
Black Clark and David have two daughters,
Alden and Jane. There is the news of the
next generation. Mary Alice Major Duncan
and Graham live in West Lafayette, Indi-
ana; Sherry Patlon Henry and Bill are in
Nashville while he is in "Vanderbilt Law
School. Gary Maxivell Rousseau and Jules
live in North Wilkesboro, where he pract-
ices law. Rose Montgomery Johnston and
lawyer Tom are living in Memphis; and,
Carolyn Pannell Ross and Dud really are
in Winnipeg, Canada.

Carolyn Dickinson Tynes is an active
newspaper woman with the Birmingham
Neu-s; another presswoman is Frances Shan-
nonhouse, who is with the Charlotte Ob-
server. Jane Street is enjoying working for
a Charlotte law firm; Dede Candler is keep-
ing up the Historic Society of Atlanta;
and Barbara Collis is decorating interiors
in Louisville. Byrd Stone likes her job. and
is a very unusual secretary in a high school;
to quote her: "can't type, take shorthand,
bookkeep, or anything else." Nancy Regi-
ster is an assistant librarian at the Llniver-
sity of Mississippi Medical School. Barbara
Darnall made Phi Beta Kappa this January,
and is no"^' working for a representative
at the Texas State Capitol. Kitty Harrison,
who also made Phi Beta Kappa, is working
for a New York bank. Iris Potteiger has
spent her field work period at the Flarvard-
Radcliffe Business Administration School, as
a seller at John Wanamakers department
store in Philadelphia; in March she will
probably work in Washington. Peggy Ann
Rogers has gone to New '^'ork to work for
a publisher. Mary Koonz. after graduating
at Purdue, plans to be a Junior Engineer
at the IBM Airborne Computer Labs. Nan-
cie Howe writes that she has been: "spe-
lunking, folksinging, and learning to play
a guitar (and working.)" Ann Irvin, who

is doing Child "Welfare Work in Roanoke,
went to New York in February for the
League of Child Welfare Workers.

And now to the European category . . .
Joyce Fackiner saw Rosemary McClaren
while "over there," and since her return has
been a technical assistant in the Station Ap-
paratus Department of the Murray Hill
Laboratory of Bell Telephone Laboratories.
The ship on which Karen Steinhardt
returned from Europe was the next to last
to pass through the Suez Canal; she is
now working as a mathematician program-
mer at Technical Operations, Inc., in 'Wash-
ington, D. C. Cissee Pfeiffer, who just
graduated from Indiana L'niversity, crossed
the Atlantic with Meredith Smythe, and
after a manellous trip, they are back in
Louisville learning how to type. In March,
Helen Turner Murphy and Tayloe sailed on
the lle-de-France for a three-months' spree;
and this summer, Julie Jackson will leave
the L'niversity of West "Virginia, and Macie
Clay will leave her job with a law firm, to
play for awhile in Europe. The last I heard
from Nancy St. Clair, she was skiing down
the Matterhorn. Other travelers of '56 are
Joan Broman, who commutes between
Florida and New York; and Joyce Lenz,
who plans a jaunt to 'Veradero, Cuba, after
working at Johns Hopkins last fall. Eliza-
beth Jean Smith will be doing quite a bit
of traveling as she is now affiliated with
Delta Airlines.

The Boston group has managed to en-
dure a freezing winter. Alice Guggen-
heimer, Louisa Hunt, Ann Stevens, Helen
Wolfe, and Betsy Meade have been keepin.g
warm by ice-skating vigorously. Gwen Hofif-
man, who graduated a Phi Beta Kappa at
"Vanderbilt, is also in Boston at Radcliffe
Graduate School.

In the school-teacher category, I have
found the following people: Denny Dolan
Henkel, who is teaching the first grade in
Englewood, Colorado; Ella Prince Trim-
mer is teaching the third grade at St. Cath-
erine's in Richmond; Jolly L'rner is enjoy-
ing teaching in Wilmington, Del., Anne
Willis in St. Louis, Jane Slack in Roanoke,
and Mary Ann Hicklin Quarngesser in the
country near Charlottesville. Mariann Wil-
son is at TCL^ working for her teacher's
certificate; Lee Chang has been quite busy
at Cornell student-deaning 250 freshman
ladies. Mimi Thornton writes that she and
Lou Galleher are still having a fine time
teaching in Culpeper, 'Virginia.

Cupid: On November lOth Peggy
Patillo married Bob Beckman. Jeannie Ap-
plequist and Jim Basson were married in
December, and Leila Thompson and Ken-
neth Taratus were married in Januarj'.
Pryde Brown and John McFee were
married on March 16. This category seems
to be a growing one: Gwen Hoffman is
engaged to a Harvard Medical student,
Tom Lamb; Lottie Lou Lipscomb is en-
gaged to John Guttry, a dentist from Kil-
gore, Texas; and Eve Altsheler is engaged
to Stuart Jay, who is attending the LTniver-
sity of Virginia Law School. Frances Gil-
bert will marry Herbert Brown in June.
On May 4, Nancy Salisbury will marry
Bob Neill of High Point, North Carolina;
and as I "mentioned" in my letter, Henry
Mills and I will be married on June 22,
after he receives his M.D. at the L'niver-
sity of Mississippi Medical School. Mean-
while, I can still be found in the Archives.

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Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, Virginia

May, 1937

DEVELOPMENT FUND

CONTINUES TO GROW

The tiftieth anniversary present to Sweet
Briar College from its alumnae, Board mem-
bers, faculty and staff, students, parents,
foundations, corporations and friends now
totals $1,925,000 for new buildings and en-
dowments. Gifts for other purposes, totaling
nearly SI 00,000, bring to more than two
million dollars the total amount given to
:he college in the four-year campaign.

The major objectives of the Half-Century
campaign were a new dormitory, science
building, and auditorium-hne arts center,
and Si, 2 '50,000 in additional endowment.
William Bland Dew Dormitory welcomed
its first 80 students last September, but addi-
tional funds are needed to reach both build-
ing and endowment goals. To assure the
completion of these objectives, and to pro-
vide Sweet Briar with an annual giving pro-
gram geared to the- college's other needs,
now and in the future, the Board of 0\er-
seers announced in February the establish-
ment of the Sweet Briar Fund, combining
the Alumnae Fund, the Parents Fund, and
the Dexelopment Program.

To assist the officers of the college in
seeking contributions to the Sweet Briar
Fund, the Board has created a new Devel-
opment Council, composed of Board mem-
bers, faculty and staff, alumnae, students,
parents, and other friends of the college.
The new Council is headed by Buford Scott
of Richmond, a member of the Board and
the father of Margery Scott '57. The Coun-
cil's work will be largely carried on through
several committees, each of which is sched-
uled to meet this month on campus in con-
junction with the annual meeting of the
Board, May 16-18.

These new committees, and their chair-
men, are: Executive, Mr. Scott; Education,
President-emeritus Meta Glass; Corjxjra-
tions, Mrs. W. L. Lyons Brown (Sara Shal-
lenbcrger, 32g); Foundations, Mrs. Fred
Andersen (Katherine Blount, 26g) and
Hugh K. Duftield, former chairman of the
Parents Advisory Board; Bequests and An-
nuities, Gorham B. Walker, Jr.; Special
Gifts, Mrs. James N. Frazer (Rebecca
Voung, 35g); Campus, G. Noble Gilpin;
Public Relations. Martha von Briesen, 31g;
md Ancillary, Helen McMahon, 23g.

J. H. D.

Plans for 48th Commencemeiit Outlined

Sweet Briar's forty-eighth annual commencement exercises, June 1-3,
mark the end of another academic year and the completion of their college
course by 86 seniors who are candidates for the bachelor of arts degree.

Devereux C. Jo-
sephs, chairman of
the board of the
New York Life In-
surance Co. and a
leading lay propon-
ent of higher educa-
tion and its needs,
will deliver the ad-
dress at the gradua-
tion exercises Mon-
day morning, June 3.
"Reliable Attitudes for New Patterns" is
the title chosen by Mr. Josephs, who is

Jamestown Anniversary

Pageant Staged in Dell

Sweet Briar's campus was the setting
for a historical pageant, "Lord Jeffrey's
County," on May 10 and 11, as the climax
of a week-long Amherst County celebra-
tion of the Jamestown anniversary.

A senior, Nancy Godwin, of Petersburg,
Va., wrote the pageant, which has a cast
of 100 people and which depicts the his-
tory of this area beginning at the time of
the Jamestown settlement in 1607.

Sammie Jean Crawford, a freshman from chairman of the President's Committee on
Amherst County, is narrator and a chorus Education Beyond the High School. He pre-
of 20 Sweet Briar students will help to un- viously served as chairman of the 13-man
fold the story. Members of Paint and committee which advised the Ford Founda-
Patches are building scenery and directing tion in its distribution of S260,00(),()0() to
lighting and sound effects. pri\attly supported colleges and universities.

The Rev. Byron S. Hallstead of Amherst The Rev. Harold C. Phillips, minister of

Methodist Church is directing the pageant, the First Baptist Church, Cleveland, will
to be presented on two successive evenings preach the Baccalaureate sermon Sunday
in the west dell. morning, June 2. That day's schedule also

includes final step-singing at 4:30 p.m.;
Vespers in the west dell, led by President
Pannell at 5:30; college supper for seniors
and parents at 7 o'clock; concert, 8:30 p.m.;
and Lantern Night ceremonies at 10.

President Pannell will be hostess at the
annual garden party in the Boxwood Circle
Saturday afternoon, June 1, in honor of
seniors, their parents and other guests,
alumnae and faculty members.

A variety of senior talent in music and
dance will be presented Sunday evening,
June 2. Piano solos by three music majors,
Alice Barnes, Jane Fitzgerald, and Carolyn
W'estfall, two vocal selections by another
senior, Patricia Johnson, and a number
played by the new chamber ensemble will
comprise the musical offerings.

In addition, members of the dance clubs
will present "Water, " a dance choreograph-
ed by Page Phelps, a senior, which was in-
c... CampMi Phoio '■"'"ded in the dance recital this spring and
Brunette Roberta Malone. of Dothan. Ala., reigned ^'35 later selected for presentation at the

as Sweet Briar's 50th May Queen on Saturday, annual Arts Forum of the Woman's Col-

May 4. "Jamaican Frolic." theme of the weekend lege. University of North Carolina. Jane

was planned and carried out by the sophomore R^j^er, alsO a senior, will play the accom-
class with Connie riTzgerala, Charleston, b. C, » ■ i i i

as chairman. panjfTient, which shc composcd.

. Mi

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SWEET BRIAR ALUMNAE NEWS

May, 1957

New Director to Head
Junior Year in France

R. John Matthew, assistant professor of
Romance languages at the City College of
New York, will become director of the
Junior Year in France beginning Sept. 1,
President Anne Gary Pannell announced
recently. Sweet Briar has administered the
program since 1948.

Mr. Matthew will succeed Prof. Joseph
E. Barker, organizer and first director of
the program, who is retiring.

The new director, who has been on the
faculty at City College since 1933, has also
been closely associ-
ated with the Junior
Year in France pro-
gram, having serv-
ed as professor-in
charge of the student
group in France dur-
ing 1952-53. A grad-
uate of the Univer-
sity of New Hamp-
shire, he has studied
at se\eral European
universities and he
holds the doctorat de I'Universite de Cler-
mont-Ferrand, France.

He was secretary-general of the Federa-
tion of French Alliances in this country
from 1946 to 1951 and he is a member of
its board of directors. He has also served
on the regional Fulbright Selection Commit-
tee. During World War II he served four
years with military and air intelligence.

In addition to numerous articles published
in professional journals, Matthew compiled
the annotated bibliography for "Language
and Area Studies in the Armed Forces"
and he is the author of "Education in
France," published in the Handbook of
Foreign Universities.

Mr. and Mrs. Matthew have a son John,
14. They were welcomed to Sweet Briar
at a garden party given in honor of Prof.
Barker and for them by President Pannell
on April 20.

Now in its ninth year under the admin-
istration of Sweet Briar College, the Junior
Year in France has enrolled a total of 722
young men and women from 110 colleges
and universities, including 87 students this
year. The year's program begins with six
weeks in the provincial capital of Tours,
where the students undergo intensive lan-
guage drill. Late in October they go to Paris
to enroll in the regular winter term of the
University. They live with French families
both in Tours and in Paris.

Prof. Barker, who joined the Sweet Briar
faculty in 1930, and was chairman of its
Romance languages department from 1941
to 1950, served as director of the University
of Delaware's foreign study program in
France in 1934-35. In recognition of his
services in promoting French ciiltural inter-
ests, he was decorated as a Chevalier of the
Legion of Honor in 1950.

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Seven sophomores who plan to study in Europe
next year include: (first row) Kathleen Mather,
Ann Pegram, Sally Mayfleld, Junior Year in
France; {2nd row) Virginia Marchant and Cath-
erine Brownlee, St. Andrews. Scotland; {3rd row)
Tabb Thornton, University of London, and Kitty
Guy, University of Munich.

Alumnae Fund Aims
To Set New Record

Gifts totaling S22,6l4 from 1760 alum-
nae have been made to the 1956-57 Alum-
nae Fund. This good news puts the Fund
ahead of last year's total at this time. Letters
ha\'e gone to all alumnae who gave last year
but have not yet contributed to the 56-57
Fund and a final appeal will be sent this
month.

Sweet Briar appears on one of the 1955-
56 "honor rolls" of alumni giving. For the
second straight year it is one of the 10 col-
leges in the country showing the highest
percentage of graduate contributors. Alum-
nae ofiicers are also eager to see it listed
among the 10 colleges showing the highest
percentage of response from ;(// alumni.

Alumnae are asked to send their gifts,
large or small, to the Alumnae Office be-
fore June 1, to help complete the Rollins
Fund and strengthen faculty salaries.

ROLLINS FUND GROWING

At the end of April, more than S64,-
596.61 had been raised for the Rollins Fund
from the sources listed below. The Kresge
Foundation has offered Sweet Briar $50,000
provided an additional $100,000 is raised
before December 1, 1957, to establish the
Wallace Rollins Professorship of Religion.

Alumnae $21,083.40

*Faculty, Staff, and students 6,537.40

*Board of Overseers 13,433.25

Parents 3,001.00

Friends 2,327.00

Class of '31 1,565.91

Class of '13 5,000.00

Sweet Briar Alumnae Clubs 7,760.15

Anonymous 4.00

Memorials 422.50

Esso Education Foundation 2,000.00

Virginia Theolgical Seminary

Alumni and Faculty 1.462.00

Total $64,596.61

*Not including alumnae.

HEATING PLANT ADDITION

CONSTRUCTION PROGRESSES

Three construction contracts, representing
$100,000, have been let by the college to
cover building an addition to the present
central heating plant, erecting a new and
larger chimney, and installing a new boiler.
Wiley and Wilson of Lynchburg are engi-
neers for this project.

C. W. Hancock & Sons, Lynchburg, won
the contract for building the addition to the
heating plant, and Erie City Iron Works,
Erie, Pa., was awarded the boiler contract.
Both firms submitted the lowest bids among
five bidders, according to Peter 'V. Daniel,
assistant to the president.

Offering the lowest of seven bids, the
International Chimney Corp. of Buffalo, N.
Y., won the contract to build the new radial
chimney, which will be about 12 feet in
diameter at the base and 125 feet high, pro-
viding increased draft for the boilers and
the increased heating capacity required.
Work has begun and should be completed
by mid-July. The present stack, which was
probably built in 1905, will be razed dur-
ing the summer.

Construction has also begun on the addi-
tion to the present heating plant, which is
to make room for the new boiler and pro-
vide fuel storage space. In addition to meet-
ing present needs, the new boiler will take
care of heating two other buildings which
are planned. The two old boilers, which
have been in use for more than 20 years
and are now operating at capacity, will
serve as stand-by units.

According to plans, the present boilers
will be reconnected and put into operation
by Sept. 1, and the new boiler is to be com-
pleted for use by mid-November.

Lynchburg News photo

Nine seniors who became members of Theta of
Virginia chapter. Phi Beta Kappa, in February are:
(1st row) Nannette McBurney, Emma Henry Math-
eson, Carroll Weitiel; {2nd row) Jane Best, Carter
Donnan, Mary Anne Wilson; (3rd row) Peggy
Liebert, Elaine Kimball, Jane Pinckney.

"HOLIDAY" VISITS CAMPUS

HOLIDAY magazine selected Sweet
Briar as the setting for a fashion feature
story on college girls' clothes for next fall.
Two writers and a photographer were spend-
ing several days on campus as this issue of
the Newsletter was being assembled, tak-
ing pictures of a few student models dressed
for all kinds of college acti\ities. Men's
fashions for the September issue will be
photographed at Princeton.

Mav, 1957

SWEET BRIAR ALUMNAE NEWS

Page 3

Two Faculty Members

Complete Doctorates

Two of Sweet Briar's outstanding teach-
ers, Ben L, Reid and Miss Dean Hosken,
will receive Ph.D. degrees in June from the
University of Virginia and Boston Univer-
sity, respectively.

Miss Hosken, who passed her oral exam-
ination early in April, wrote her disserta-
tion on "Prolegomena to a Christian Philos-
ophy of Penal Justice." A Phi Beta Kappa
graduate of Mount Holyoke College, she
holds a B.D., cum laude, from Union The-
ological Seminary. She had taught at Mount
Holyoke before coming to Sweet Briar in
1930 as assistant professor of religion.

Mr. Reid, who came to Sweet Briar in
1951 and is assistant professor of English,
passed his oral examination late in April
and has completed his dissertation on "W.
B. Yeats and Generic Tragedy." An honor
graduate of the University of Louisville and
holder of a master's degree from Columbia
L'niversity, Mr. Reid has just been elected
to Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Vir-
ginia.

During the past year he has published
three critical essays in 18th century litera-
ture the most recent, "Justice tor Pamela,"
ha\ ing been warmly commended in the New
York Times book section after it appeared
in the winter issue of the Hudson Review.

Mr. Reid has resigned from the Sweet
Briar faculty to return to Mount Holyoke
College where he formerly taught.

STUDENT HONORS

Preshman Honor List: Rhett Ball, Leigh Brown,
Mary Anne Claiborne, Lura Ann Coleman, Mar-
garet Cook, Lee Culluni, Elizabeth Dew, May-
delle Foster, Carolyn Gough, Claire Manner, Mary-
lyn Jackson, Carolyn King, Ary Jane Lotterhos,
Frances Newman. Patricia Russell, Elizabeth
Shwab, Marion Smith. Sarah LInderhill, Eleanor
"Weingart, Ann Dick Wilson, Gale Young.

De.in's Lis! — second semester: Seniors; Sophie
Ames, Alice Barnes, Jane Best, Carter Donnan,
Jane Fitzgerald. Betty Folmar, Mariella Gibson,
Nancy Godwin. Anne Gwinn, Joan Harjes, Char-
lotte Heuer. Elaine Kimball, Margaret Liebert,
Nannette McBurney, Roberta Malone, Virginia
Marks, Emma Matheson. Frances May, Louisa
Morton, Helene Perry. Jane Pinckney, Susan
Ragland, Joanne Raines. Enid Slack, Helen Smith,
Mary Landon Smith, Barbara TetzlafF, Louise
Wallace. Carroll Weitzel, Carolyn Westfall, Mar-
jorie Whitson, Mary Anne Wilson.

Ji'NiORS: Sarah Austen. Olivia Benedict, Polly
Benson, Sarah Benton. June Berguido, Suzanne
Brown. Floride Buchanan. Julia Olive Craig,
Susan Davis. Susan Day. Myrna Fielding. Ruth
Frame. Marcia Hill, Edith Knapp, Laurie Lanier,
Maud Winborne Leigh, Shirley McCallum. Eliz-
abeth Meats, Kenan Myers, Ethel Ogden, Adele
Scott. Dorothy Wyatt.

Sophomores: Elaine Allison, Etna Arnold,
Judith Brean. Catherine Brownlee, Ethel Bruner,
Elisabeth Chambers. Elizabeth Colwill, Kitty Guy,
Gertrude Jackson. Elizabeth Johnston, Virginia
Marchant, Kathleen Mather, Evelyn Moore,
Eleanor Morison, Fleming Parker, Virginia Ram-
sey, Jane VC'heeler.

QV (sophomore honorary society): Ann Bush,
Mary Harrison Cooke, Betsy Duke, Sally Hale,
Sorrel Mackall. Virginia Marchant, Dorothy
Moore, Eleanor Morison. Betsy Salisbury, Gretch-
cn Smith, Ann Turnbull and Ann Young.

FOREIGN STUDENTS EVALUATE YEAR AT SWEET BRIAR

Pt'i// Jihl Lebdiwi! were represented al Street Briar for the first time this year by
Era Villaran and Alona Ghaiittis. irho held two of the scholarships offered to foreign
students. Each has contributed a great deal to the campus life and, as far as possible, to
communities beyond the campris. Recently Eva and Alona summarized their reactions to
the year at Sweet Briar, as follows:

The academic year of 1956-57 has brought
to me innumerable experiences. From the
\ery beginning of the year it has been
wonderful for me to
li\c with so many
girls, to share their
lives, to get to know
them, to be a mem-
ber and a part of the
school routine, to
enjoy my work, and
i ^^^^^^^^^^H to regard Sweet Briar
4H^|^^^^^HL<. o^n home.

Every single day has taught me some-
thing new. I have learned and admired the
wonderful relationship between professors
and students in which the strongest virtues
are the trust and confidence in the student.
Although every student is a member of a
community she is considered as an indi-
vidual and treated as such. She feels toward
the teacher a strong friendship because she
knows that in him she has a friend ready
to help and advise her. On her part, the
student is asked to cooperate with the
teacher and to do the best she can in her
work. No matter what the results are she
is certain that her work and efforts will be
appreciated by her professors. In this knowl-
edge she grows confident in herself, thus
achieving better results in her work.

At Sweet Briar there is time for every-
thing. Besides my studies I have enjoyed
tremendously the beautiful campus of the
school. It has been one of my greatest
pleasures to wander around in the woods,
the lake, the monument, admiring their
beauty and recording in my memory all
kinds of little details that will remind me
of this wonderful year.

The academic year is coming to an end.
It seems as if it was yesterday when I
saw the welcome smile of my big sister
and experienced the great fears of my iirst
class. Time has flown away since that first
day, bringing with each day's routine the
appreciation of what life is like in an Amer-
ican college. I feel that with this great
opportunit)' gi\en to me I have not only
enriched my life with the knowledge that
I have gathered from my studies, but also
with the many true friendships that I have
gained throughout this year, and which I
hope to keep all my life. I consider that
my stay at Sweet Briar has been one of
the happiest times in my life, and I shall
always keep in my heart the wonderful
memory of it.

Eva Villaran

The warm welcome which I received on
my arrival at Sweet Briar College gave me
so much confidence that I felt immediately
at home; my apprehensions were gone, leav-
ing exciting prospects ahead of me.

As I visited the campus at sunset, I be-
came silent at the beauty of such a place
and the first thing that occurred to me was:
"How privileged the American girls must
be to live here." My first impression of
Sweet Briar College was dazzling I On the
same evening I wrote a 2-f-page letter to
mother telling her my excitement in being
in such a school.

I immediately became acquainted with the
girls who amazed me by thjir extreme kind-
ness and informality. My "big sister" ex-
plained to me many ol the college rules and
traditions. Nothing enchanted me as much
as the honor system which I found incom-
parably essential to
the development ot
the individual's in-
tegrity and sense of
responsibility. I ad-
mired it also because
it stressed the per-
sonal principles rath-
er than those of the
school. Being some-
thing completely new
for me, it struck me
vividly and my reaction was a wish to ap-
ply it in Lebanon and throughout life in
all matters.

As time passed I became a member of
the whole community which I got to know
better and where I made many friends.

Along with my acquaintances I felt that
I was intellectually growing because of all
my new experiences; my personality de-
veloped and I became much surer ol myself
and of my beliefs especially when I had to
deliver talks to different communities and
groups. I learned to evaluate myself and
others on more objective grounds, I became
more tolerant and more understanding.

Being very curious, I attended all the pos-
sible entertainments and conferences which
I could and now I have become so involved
with my environment that it will be difficult
for me to disentangle myself whether from
the habits I acquired, the customs I prac-
ticed and the slang I learned.

In general my experiences at Sweet Briar
(;ollcge being new and beneficial, gave me
a broader view of the world as a whole and
of America in particular: it showed me the
real application of democracy and liberty.

I hope that many foreign students will
get the opportunity I got so that they may
take back to their homes the product of
their most fruitful years.

MONA Ghantus

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SWEET BRIAR ALUMNAE NEWS

May. 19=*?

Emily Bo wen Room

Everyone who enters the Emily Bowen
Room, on the ground floor of the new Wil-
liam Bland Dew dormitory, is immediately
aware of the gay colors which make the spa-
cious room unusually attractive, but until re-
cently it was not apparent to all how the
room came to be named.

A simple brass plate, installed on one of
the walls of the room, now conveys this
information: "The Emily Bowen Room, fur-
nished in memory of Emily Johnston Bowen,
Class of 1958."

Emily's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hascall
Bowen (Ruth Johnston '26) and her grand-
mother, Mrs. John P. Moorman, all of Roa-
noke, visited Sweet Briar when the plate was
installed.

Emily was a freshman at Sweet Briar when
she died on April 11, 1955, of injuries re-
ceived in an automobile accident in Lynch-
burg. She was on her way back to college
after spring vacation. Her death shocked and
saddened her classmates and other friends,
one of whom wrote that week in the Sweet
Br'hir Neirs: "Emily Bowen's gift to us was
that of classmate, fellow student and friend.

Gent^ Campbell Phoro

of smiling selflessness and sincerest loyalty.

"She remains a part of Sweet Briar, a
part of all who knew and loved her and who,
in remembering, know that 'through the
hands of such as these God speaks and
from behind their eyes he smiles upon the
earth'."

Shortly thereafter her class sponsored a
plan to make Emily Bowen's spirit a part
of their college by furnishing and naming
for her a room in the new dormitory, then
being planned. Other students and teachers
at Sweet Briar, members of Emily's family,
and friends and alumnae in Roanoke also
contributed to the fund.

The Emily Bowen Room was used for the
first time on Parents' Day, late last October.

Since then it has become a favorite gath-
ering place for students and their guests,
it has been the scene of numerous college
teas and receptions, and it has served hap-
pily as a comfortable place for lectures, dis-
cussion groups, alumnae meetings, and im-
promptu music-making. A welcome addition
to the room's furnishings is the piano, given
by a Richmond alumna ( Lydia Purcell

Chamber Music Ensemble

Prepares First Concerts

A newly-formed chamber music ensemble
which includes three students, three faculty
members and two musicians from Lynch-
burg, is making its first concert appearance
on Thursday evening. May 16. It will play
again in a Commencement concert, June 2.

G. Noble Gilpin, chairman of the music
department, will direct the ensemble and
will play the organ for at least one number.
Others in the group include Gwen Speel,
flute; loan Schladermundt and Juanita Mix-
son, \iolins; Miss Lucile LImbreit, associate
professor music, and Mrs. Paul Ellis, Lynch-
burg, violas; Irving Dayton, Lynchburg,
flute; and Edmund Allison, assistant profes-
sor of music, organ.

Opening with an organ solo, Bach's Toc-
-cata and Fugue in D minor, played by Mr.
Allison, the program will include the An-
dante from Bach's double violin concerto; a
suite for chamber group by Schnittelbach;
the first movement of the double piano con-
certo in C major, by Bach, with Alice Barnes
and Jane Fitzgerald at the pianos. Miss Um-
breit and Mrs. Adrian Massie, an alumna
and chairman of the Memorial Chapel Fund,
will play a suite for two pianos by Milhaud.

This recital is the fourth in a series ar-
ranged by the Music department this spring
in conjunction with the Memorial Chapel
Committee, as benefits for the chapel fund.
Senior recitals in March and April by Alice
Barnes, Jane Fitzgerald and Carolyn West-
fall completed the series.

Wilmer '23) and her husband, in memory
of her father.

Several shades of blue and green, brick-
dust red, and white are the predominating
colors which greet the eye in the Emily
Bowen Room. Along two sides of the room,
arched French doors give access on the one
side onto a green lawn and on the other to
a flagged terrace. It is a room with a youth-
ful freshness, like that of Emily Bowen.

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Ethel Ogden, the Manson Scholar, and Winnie Leigh, the
Benedict Scholar, congratulate each other on their recent awards.

IN memory of Mr. N, C. Manson, Jr., the alumnae have
endowed a full tuition scholarship each year. The
Manson Memorial Scholarship is awarded to an upper-class
student of high academic achievement who shows real
quality of leadership and makes a real contribution to
student activities. This award was established in 1925, the
year following Mr. Manson's death. Every student who
attended Sweet Briar from its beginning to that time knew
and lo\ed Mr. Manson, devoted friend and benefactor of
the college and member of the Board of Directors.

At commencement Dean Pearl announced that the
Manson Memorial Scholarship for 1957-58 was awarded
to Ethel Ogden, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William F.
Ogden of Greenwich, Connecticut. Ethel is well qualified
for this honor. She received Freshman Honors and has
been on the Dean's List every semester. In addition to
her high academic record Ethel has been outstanding in
many other phases of the life of the college.

At the end of her freshman year her class elected her
a member of Q. V., sophomore society, during her second
year she also represented her class on the YWCA board,
received an Athletic Association Award, and was elected
to Paint and Patches dramatic society. This year as a junior
Ethel was head of orientation, a student guide, and a mem-

ber of the Briar Patch staff. She will serve as president of
the "i'AVCA next year and is majoring in religion.

"K^AUDE WINBORNE LEIGH of Norfolk, Virginia,
-^'-*-was named holder of the Mary Kendrick Benedict
Scholarship for 1957-58. This announcement, made at
Commencement, will be of especial interest to the members
of the class of 1935 as Winnie is the daughter of Maude
W'niborne Leigh, '35.

Gi\'en to an upper-class student of "high academic
standing and personal integrity, who has shown in her
college experience a purpose for service," the Benedict
Scholarship is considered a special distinction. It is named
for Sweet Briar's first president whose friends and former
students have contributed the principal for the scholarship.

Winnie is a senior representative to the Judicial Board
and has held many offices during her years at Sweet Briar.
She was president of her freshman class, a Q. V., junior
representative to the YWCA, member of the orientation
committee, a member of the Briar Patch Staff, a student
guide and member of the dance group. Like the holder of
the Manson Scholarship, Winnie is also a religion major
who was awarded Freshman Honors and has been on the
Dean's List every semester of her college career.

oweei Bf^iafi

ALUMNAE NEWS

THE SWEET BRIAR
ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

OFFICERS

Gladys Wester Horton, '30g

President

Phoebe Rotve Peters, '31g

Virst V ice-Vres'ident
Ella-Prince Trimmer, '56g

Second Vice-President

Elizabeth Bond Wood, '34g

Executive Secretary and Treasurer

Nancy Dowd Burton, '46g

Chairman of the Alumnae Fund

Alumna Member
BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Sara Shalleuberger Brown, '32g

Alumnae Members
BOARD OF OVERSEERS

Nan Potfell Hodges, 'lOg
Katherine Blount Andersen, '26g
Rebecca Young Frazer, '35g
Alma Martin Rotnem, '36g

MEMBERS OF THE
EXECUTIVE BOARD

Mary Clark Rogers, '13
Dorothy Keller Iliff, '26g
Ellen Newell Bryan, '26
Marion Jayne Bercuido, '28g
Virginia Van Winkle Morlidge, '28g
Norvell Royer Orgain, '30g
Ruth Hasson Smith, '30g
Agnes Cleveland Sandifer, '31g
Elizabeth Myers Harding, '35g
Betty Smartt Johnson, '38g
Ann Morrison Reams, '42g
Sarah Louise Adams Bush, '43g
Marguerite Hume, '43g
Margaret Munnerlyn Haverty, '47g
Barbara Lisier Edgerley, '51g
Mary Lee McGinnis, '54g

VOLIMH T\\ LNTV-SIX
NUMBER SIX

Elizabeth Bond Wood, '34g Editors Judith Fe/ld Vogelback

TUNE 1957

2 YOU WERE THERE!

RY Prince Trimmer, '56g

4 PROBLEMS IN PERSPECTIVE

BY Milan E. Hapala, Associate Professor
of Government and Sociology

6 OPEN HOUSE AT UNCLE JOE'S

BY Betsy Duke, '59, and

Elizabeth Johnston, '59

7 ADVENTURE AND CONSISTENCY

by Marion Benedict Rollins.

Professor of Religion

8 HONORS PLAN OF STUDY

10 THE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

12 A SWEET BRIAR MEMORIAL CHAPEL

BY Gertrude Dally Massie, '22g

13 OVER TWO MILLION

14 CLUBS

1 ^ CLASS NOTES

Issued six times yearly: November 1st and 15th, February, March, May, June,
by Sweet Briar College. Entered as second class matter November 30, 1931 at the
Postoffice at Sweet Briar, Virginia. Member of the American Alumni Council.

You Were There!

IF you were one of 147 alumnae,
gathering at Sweet Briar's 48th Com-
mencement, you arrived laden with
family snapshots as well as anticipa-
tion. By Tuesday when you headed
home, equally laden with all things
from trays to trashbaskets, you had
starred in a three-day extravaganza,
lacking only Billy Rose to be complete.

Perhaps you were a member of the
"Potential Alumnae, " known until
11:50 a.m. on June 3rd as Seniors. If
so, you didn't arrive with the others.
You'd been there all along, whiling
away the time from SeptembiT to June
with little activities like exams and
comprehensives and an occasional week-
end at Washington and Lee (just to
break the monotony of wearing a black
robe iill tiie time).

If so, your weekend started with the
other alumnae at Mrs. Pannell's Gar-

Eugenia Burnett AHel '42, and her sister,
ludith Burnett Halsey, '47, daughters of
Eugenia Griffin Burnett, '10, member of the
first graduating class and first alumna
member of the Board of Directors.

by Prince Trimmer, '56g

den Party in the Boxwood Circle, but
went on from there to Boonesboro
Country Club and cocktails that mel-
lowed your mood for a late and lovely
dinner at The Columns or Town and
Country or wherever you chose.

Sunday was well-hlled. You were
enjoyably processed from Baccalaureate
to Commencement practice ("Let's try
the hooding once again ... it MUST
be in unison") and on to Step-singing
(a commendable performance). Then
came your Parents Supper and Lantern
Night, so beautiful in its ordered dig-
nity that nostalgic memories were
awakened in the darkness outside your
candle's light.

And then sudd.-nlyl — there you
were ! — a real alumna instead of mere-
ly a potential one. Your green-cased
diploma was tucked snugly under your
arm, your tassel changed from right to
left, and your hood fastened into place
by the white-clad underclassman be-
hind you (or perhaps your mother or
an alumna friend who'd struggled to
dig up a white dress for the occasion).
You fiacked up and headed east, west,
south and north. Little did you know
what fun you left behind!

If you were a member of the Execu-
tive Board, you hadn't been on campus
quite as long as the "Potential Alum-
nae" — only since Friday when you
arrived for an informal discussion be-
fore the actual meetings themselves.
Your formal business got under way
Saturday morning with the exciting
news that Sweet Briar had again made
the honor roll of the Alumni Council
News, placing tenth among graduate
contributors. With this in mind, you
voted unanimously to shoot for a lO*^^
increase in number of contributors for
the 1957-58 Fund Drive. You listened
to some interesting accounts of club
functions, from an antique auction in
Montgomery to an ice-skating party in
Norfolk (yes, Norfolk, VIRGINIA).
In fact, you probably wondered how

these clubs managed to function at all
since, according to the Alumnae Office,
there have been over 1,000 address
changes this year. You wondered, too,
whatever had happened to all the alum-
nae who'd just forgotten to mail back
the questionnaire sent them two years
ago. There were such simple ques-
tions in it — name? class? address?
You looked at the works of a dozen
artists, all recommended and con-
sidered for Mrs. Pannell's portrait and
you had your own particular favorite —
just like everyone else on the Board.

Your meetings were scheduled only
for Saturday. Following the Garden
Part}' you went your own way only to
find yourself reconvening Sunday
morning to finish up last minute busi-
ness. By Sunday noon your required
activities were over, but you didn't
think about going home. No, indeed !
Like the proverbial bad penny, you re-
appeared (in fact, you never i^mppear-
ed) to mingle with the third category
of alumnae on campus: the members
of the reunion classes.

IF you found yourself in the last
group, whether a fugitive from 1912
or 1956, your days were just as plen-
tifully packed, "i'our official day for
registering was Sunday. Perhaps you
had time before Step-singing to look
fondly at your senior annual (or to
wish you could burn all extant copies)
or to read the notes your absent class-
mates had sent to greet you. In any
event, at 4 p.m. you "came rolling
along" to prove that you could still
sing lustily and gustily even if the
words said, "We're not spring chicks
and we date from 1906." Although
the rain obliterated vespers, it didn't
dampen your spirits at the class pic-
nics. Perhaps you lingered in a pro-
fessor's home or perhaps you hurried
back up the hill to Manson for a stu-
dent program of music and dance be-
fore Lantern Night.

Alumnae News

MONDAY saw you don cap and
^own, hoping to combine the
youth of a senior with the complete and
utter dignity of an alumna back for
Commencement. Sitting in the alum-
nae section to the right of the gradu-
ates and their hooders, you heard Mr.
Devereux Josephs, chairman of Presi-
dent Eisenhower's Committee on Edu-
cation Beyond the High School,
deliver a Commencement address
entirely free of high-flown generalities
but packed full of humane \\isdom,
lightened with an easy good humor.
You barely had time to return your
borrowed finery before it was time to
meet in Reid Refectory for luncheon
and the annual meeting of the Alum-
nae Association. How exciting to
learn that the still-incomplete Fund
Drive already stood at 526,43''. 42!
Faculty Open Houses gave you a
chance to relax with your favorite
professors in the afternoon before a
Punch Party at the Date House. (Com-
ment: SOME punch!") At 7:30
you were dining by candlelir;ht in the
Refectory at the Banquet and admirinc;
the gay and charming toastmistress,
Alice Dabiiey Parker. Were you a
member of the class of 1932, you cele-
brated your 25th Reunion by entertain-
ing those present with your souped-up
rendition of "My Fair Lady." We
agreed with you heartily when you
sang: We could have talked all night
. . .in fact, we DID talk all night ..."

Talking on the lawn after Commencement, L. to R., Dr. Barker, Mr. Thomas C. Boushall,
President of the Board of Directors and Board of Overseers, Bishop W. C. Campbell, whose
daughter, Jane, is a '57 graduate, Mr. John Zinsser, member of the Board of Directors, Mr.
Devereux Josephs, the Commencement speaker, chairman of President Eisenhower's
Committee on Education Beyond the High School, and President Anne G. Pannell.

If you did talk all night, you may
have regretted it. Early Tuesday you
were summoned back to class ( remem-
ber — this IS a college), held infor-
mally in Dew's Emily Bowen Room.
The topic, Latin America, was pre-
sented by Dr. Mazur and a faculty
panel. 'You learned that this topic was
one of two experimental "Problems in
Perspective," forerunner of a course
required of all senior students next
year. Greatly relieved that certain

names and terms meant something to
you after all, you journeyed to Sweet
Briar House for the last item on your
reunion agenda, a buffet luncheon with
Mrs. Pannell, and a tour through Sweet
Briar House.

And then somehow you found your-
self packing and taking a last sweeping
look from Monument Hill to the East
Dell — a lingering look to last you
till the cry, "See you at Reunion!" be-
comes a reality once again.

The academic procession emerges from Commencement exercises in Daisy Williams Gymnasium. Following James Rowley, Assoriata
Professor of History, are (r. to 1.) President Anne G. Pannell. Bishop W. C. Campbell. Mr. Devereux Josephs, Commencement speaker. Dean
Mary Pearl, Belle Boone Beard, Professor of Sociology, Dr. Carol Rice, Dr. Joseph Barker, and Gladys Boone Professor of Economics.

June 1957

Problems

Perspective

by Milan E. Hapala,
Associate Professor of
Government and Sociology

THE educational landscape at Sweet
Briar will be enriched next fall by
the addition of the inter-disciplinary
course for seniors, Problems in Per-
spective. In this new course seniors
will study some of the great issues ot
our times in the perspective of the var-
ious academic disciplines. The adop-
tion of the course by the faculty in May,
1957, was preceded by many hours
of preliminary discussions in commit-
tee meetings and by experimental ses-
sions of the course this spring.

The idea for a new interdepartment-
al course focused upon the controver-
sial issues of our society was first dis-
cussed in the Committee on Education-
al Trends and Instruction in February,
1955. The advocates of such a course
believed that the necessary emphasis on
departmental and specialized courses
combined with the system of free elec-
tives has made it difficult, and perhaps
impossible, for seniors to apply their
specialized knowledge to the great is-
sues of the day. Most of the great
problems can not be divided and stud-
ied in all their aspects in specialized
departmental courses. In addition, it
was argued in support of the new
course that a liberal education, if it is
to free man from prejudices by en-
lightening him and by revealing the
never ending drama of man's search
for truth, must be relevant to our times,

to the changing character of our so-
ciety, and, in our special circumstances
at Sweet Briar, to the changing role
and needs of women. Even though the
faculty was agreed in the sprmg of
1955 on the desirability of an inter-
departmental course for seniors which
would consider according to the cata-
log statement "the methods by which
their varied academic experiences may
serve in establishing effective ways of
facing major issues of the post-gradua-
tion lives," many problems, including
the content of the course and the meth-
od of instruction to be used, had to
be solved first.

Further progress in getting the
course adopted was made in 1955-56
by a hard working committee which
was chaired by Dr. Thomas Hughes
and which included President Pannell
and Dean Pearl. The committee pro-
posed that the course be required of
all seniors because the objectives of
the course could not be fulfilled unless
student representation from the dif-
ferent fields of academic concentration
was assured. The faculty agreed to re-
quire the course of all seniors, but the
final adoption of the course was de-
layed because of staffing difficulties.

In 1956-57 a new committe; pro-
posed to try out the course on an ex-
perimental basis to stimulate interest
and to test the theory of the course.

A new outline for the course embody-
ing many proposals made by the first
committee was prepared as a guide for
the experimental sessions.

The revised outline states that the
objectives of the course are (1) to
provide for the whole senior class a
common intellectual experience; (2) to
focus the sc-niors' attention on major
problems common to all seniors re-
gardless of their major areas of special-
ization and common to alumnae as
well; (3) to encourage seniors to place
these common problems in the per-
spective established by their major
fields of emphasis and by their indi-
vidual experiences. The course should
encourage seniors to exchange with
each other their intellectual insights
into difficult problems, which would
be viewed in the perspective of the
past, the present, and the future.

The proposed instructional method
emphasizes student-led discussion, stu-
dent panels, student debates, and stu-
dent reports rather than lectures of
guests and faculty members. Three or
four problems will be discussed first
semester. The course will meet once
a week for one hour's credit. Each
problem will be defined by a faculty
member or a guest lecturer at a general
meeting of the whole senior class. The
following week the senior class will
meet in small discussion groups, each
led by a student leader and assisted by
a faculty member, to explore the var-
ious perspectixes from which the prob-
lem may be \iewed. If desirable, the
small groups will meet for the second
time, or the session in the third week
may be devoted to a field trip, inter-
viewing, or the use of audio-visual aids.
The final session will hear reports from
student groups and will attempt to
formulate a summary ot the student
discussions.

THE content of the course will be
planned by a chairman selected
for a term of one year with the assist-
ance of a committee of four faculty
members representing the four groups
of the curriculum: language and litera-
ture, natural and mathematical sciences,
social studies, and the arts. Topics
will be chosen each year according to
the needs and, if possible, the wishes,
of the students enrolled in the course,
and the changing character of major
issues. The Droblems will be phras?d
with such concreteness as to get inside

Alinnihie News

the living space of the senior student
and the young alumna.

The first series of discussions this
spring was devoted to the problem of
juvenile delinquency. This topic was
selected as an issue of general concern
and of personal urgency and also as an
illustration of the fundamental prob-
lem of authority vs. freedom. In other
years similar topics related to the great
issue of authority ^■s. freedom will be
selected, including the economic issue
of state planning vs. market economy
and the political issues of civil rights
and conflicting loyalties. The prob-
lem of juvenile delinquency was intro-
duced and defined in sociological and
psychological terms by Dr. Belle
Boone Beard, Professor of Sociology.
The following week small discussion
groups, each led by a student, who was
assisted by faculty or visiting experts,
studied the personality ot the delin-
quent, the relationship of juvenile de-
linquency to the cultural pattern of our
society, the influence of mass media
of communication on juvenile delin-

quency, and the procedure of juvenile
courts. In the final session, which
heard the summaries of the student dis-
cussions, the problem of juvenile de-
linquency was viewed from moral and
historical perspectives.

THE second problem chosen for the
experimental sessions ot the
course was an area study of Latin
America. Dr. Gerhard Masur, Pro-
fessor of History, spoke on Problems in
Contemporary Latin America and the
second week a panel of faculty mem-
bers representing different academic
disciplines, including history, art, lit-
erature, education, and sociology, an-
swered questions based on the lecture
and the readings done by the students
from books found in a selected bibli-
ography which was distributed to the
senior class. This series of discussions
was repeated for the alumnae college
on June 6.

After the conclusion of the first ex-
perimental session of the course, the
faculty adopted the course for the com-

ing academic year and the revised
outline became the syllabus of the
course. The course, however, is re-
garded as experimental and its continu-
ation will depend on favorable results.
For the fall .semester of 1957-58 four
problems have been scheduled: relativ-
ism. Western Europe, civil rights, and
architecture and the changing needs of
society.

Seniors who attended the meetings
of the course this spring are favorable
to the course. A questionnaire was
distributed asking the seniors to evalu-
ate the course and to suggest improve-
ments. The results of the question-
naire have not been fully analyzed, but
in reply to the question, "What is your
general evaluation of this year's ex-
periment.'" only 4 per cent of the
class replied, "Unfavorable."

Those of us who have been interested
in this intellectual adventure hope that
the Problems in Perspective course will
strengthen the liberal arts education at
Sweet Briar by making it vital and rele-
vant to our time and society.

The panel on Latin-America is deep in discussion of their Problem in Perspective. From left to right: James

Rawley, Associate Professor of History, Belle Boone Beard, Professor of Sociology, Franz Bernheimer, Assistant

Professor of Art, Sonja P. Karsen, Assistant Professor of Modern Languages, Gerhard Masur. Professor of History,

and Milan E. Hapala. Associate Professor of Government and Economics.

June 1957

open House at Uncle Joe's

by Bhtsy Duke. '59, and Elizabeth Johnston, '59

IN a large, comfortable living room
on the Sweet Briar campus a man is
sitting in a much-used green arm chair,
reading aloud. A group of students
is sprawled all around the room on
chairs, sofa, and the floor, listening.
Empty coffee cups and full ash trays
surround them. It is Sunday night at
Dr. Barker's.

Dr. Joseph Barker's apartment over
the Book Shop has been a second home
to Sweet Briar girls for all the twenty-
seven years he has been at the college.
Mrs. Frederick Scott, president of th:
class of 1936, of which Dr. and Mrs.
Barker were honorary members, writes,
"It was open to us with the warmest
welcome at any hour of the day or
night, and a great many of us used it
freely, stopping in most informally,
and always finding not only a wel-
come, but a willing ear available to us."

During the thirties and early forties
the Barkers were "at home" to students
every Friday afternoon. Now, e\ery
day is "open house" for girls dropping
in to see "Uncle Joe," who is not only
a friend and good provider (the cookie
box is always full) but also a fascinat-
ing person. His "nieces" are continu-

ally amazed as they learn about more
ot his unusual experiences. A favorite
Sunday night reading is "Hamlet after
Four Rehearsals," Dr. Barker's humor-
ous account of his brief acting career.
A thick scrapbook contains mementos
of his three months as interpreter for
Woodrow Wilson's Secret Service
bodyguard in Paris in 1918-19.

While he was serving in France, Dr.
Barker met Mile. Jeanne Dorso, whom
he returned to marry in 1929; the fol-
lowing year he brought her to Sweet
Briar. Mrs. Scott writes that Dr. Bar-
ker and his "gentle, lovely French wife
. . . followed our problems, our love
affairs, our joys, all with deepest in-
terest and with very good advice, and
after we left college they kept just as
keen and close an interest in us."
Mrs. Barker was very much a part of
the college and especially of the Junior
Year in France, which she worked long
and hard to help organize. She died
in 1954, but her presence is still felt,
even by those who did not know her.

Dr. Barker first became interested in
the Junior Year Abroad when he ac-
companied a group of students to
France under the University of Dela-

In his apartment, Dr. Barker enjoys a favorite occupotion, talking with students. Mary-
Anne Wilson, '57, and Roberta Malone, '57, spent their junior year in France.

ware plan. When, after the war, he
found that Delaware was not going to
continue its program, he proposed to
President Martha Lucas that Sweet
Briar sponsor a Junior Year in France.
She approved, and he was appointed
director in 1947. The program has
been very successful, and now about 85
American students study in Paris under
the Sweet Briar Plan each year from
many colleges and universities.

SWEET BRIAR'S interest in France
extended far beyond the establish-
ment of the Junior Year. Mrs. Wil-
liam Bland Dew, for many years one
of the Barkers' closest friends, recalls
the response to Dr. Barker's convoca-
tion speech one fall soon after the war
was over. He had just returned from
France, and described the terrible sit-
uation there. Mrs. Dew writes, "Five
girls met him at the door to find out
what they could do to help. Many oth-
ers came to the apartment. The col-
lege adopted a school in Paris. The
funds committee raised $2,000 that
year, $1,000 the next. Later the girls
helped the schools in Brittany which
had been wiped out."

For his part in strengthening rela-
tionships between America and France
Dr. Barker was made a Chevalier de la
Legion d'Honneur. Mrs. Dew says
that with Mrs. Barker she "was family
for him" when the award was present-
ed to him at Sweet Briar House.

Dr. Barker has meant a great deal
to Sweet Briar as a person and as Di-
rector of the Junior Year in France.
Anne Kilby, a 1954 graduate who stud-
ied under the Sweet Briar Plan, writes,
"His work with the Junior Year de-
mands complete respect. It is largely
through his efforts and capabilities and
enthusiasm that nearly a hundred peo-
ple each year experience the wealth of
a year's study in France ... I treasure
knowing him because of his simplicity
and consideration, his sense of humor
and of delight, his warmth and gener-
osity."

Students and alumnae alike were de-
lighted when Mrs. Pannell announced
at Commencement that, although Dr.
Barker is retiring as active head of the
Junior Year, he will remain at Sweet
Briar as advisor. Girls will continue
to join him on his brisk walks around
the campus each afternoon and to drop
in for cafe au lait and an evening of
O. Henry, Chinese Fairy Tales, and the
company of their favorite uncle.

Alumnae News

Al Commencement Mrs. Lill chats with members ol the 25th reunion class. Left to right:
Marcia Patterson, splendid in her Ph. D. robes, Elizabeth Clary Treadwell, Mrs. Lill, Alice
Dabney Parker, able toaslmistress ior the banquet on Monday night, and Dr. Betty Allen

Magruder Reck

TWENTY-NINE years ago, Ber-
nice Lill, Mary Pearl, Ethel Ra-
mage, and I were transplanted from
various other "patches" to the soil of
Sweet Briar, and all of us proceeded to
put down deep roots.

My first impressions of Bernice
were: "What an attractive person!
What an able registrar!" Those im-
pressions have been reinforced through
the years, while warm affection has
been added.

During fifteen years of work on the
Admission (iommittee under her
chairmanship, I continually admired
her ability to focus on essentials and to
combine qualities whose separation
would have been a disaster. She has
consistently kept human appreciation
of candidates without bypassing ob-
jective academic standards. She has
freed the members of the committee
to exercise responsible judgment, yet
has never left them leaderless when
they needed the insight or conviction
which only her long experience and
unique vantatje point could give. She
has never lost the sense of Sweet
Briar's own history and "specialness,"
yet she has always stimulated and fed
our awareness of current developments
in the whole American academic scene.

To work on admission under Ber-

nice Lill makes the headmistresses of
preparatory schools and the principals
of high schools not just names but live
individuals whom she often knows
personally but whose problems she un-
derstands in any case. The schools
themselves emerge from a general blur
into the individuality which her in-
timate knowledge enables her to recre-
ate in our imagination. She can ap-
preciate without ceasing to appraise
critically, and she has always helped
her colleagues to make that necessary
combination. She has, moreover,
taught us in admission policy to com-
bine adventure with basic consistency.
Whenever a select group of schools
and colleges have embarked upon a
serious co-operative experiment to dis-
cover the students who will benefit
most from liberal education and to fa-
cilitate their college admission, Ber-
nice Lill has studied the experiment
from all angles, evaluated it in relation
to Sweet Briar's established policies,
and given the faculty constructive lead-
ership toward flexibility without basic
compromise.

To her combination of vision and
judgment we largely owe our gradual
lessening of rigidity in entrance re-
quirements, the varied nature of our

Adventure

and

Consistency

BY Marion Benedict Rollins
Professor of Religion

many-faceted admission data, our grad-
ually increased use of "College Boards"
as one kind of help in selection among
applicants, the democratic character of
our admission procedures, our warm
relation with secondary schools and the
deepening of this relation by caretully
planned mutual visiting, and the vital
role given to alumnae in finding able
candidates. In short, every part of our
present effective admission work bears
in high degree the creative stamp of
Bernice Lill — and our place among
colleges working open-mindcdly on
admission problems is largely due to
her alertness, courage, and wisdom.

What she has built into her special
part of our academic structure will
continue to bear fruit over the years,
as the beautiful home that she has
built on Woodland Road will continue
to add charm to the campus. All of
us who have seen her in that home as
cordial friend and delightful hostess
share gratefully in the realization that
her early retirement does not mean our
losing her as a neighbor, even though
Spanish-speaking countries will lure
her away at times. Just watch her
find more and more ways to contribute
zest and stimulus and generous hard
work to the life of the Sweet Briar
community !

Jlnk 1957

Susan Davis, a junior, is using the analyt-
ical balance under supervision of Esther
Lefiler, Assistant Chemistry Professor.

HONORS PLAN

Students Work Independently
Under Guidance of Professors

THE student of exceptional ability who has Intellectual
curiosity and initiative needs to be allowed to forge
ahead on her own in order to develop to the fullest her innate
capacities. She needs to learn to think for herself, to learn to
work independently. She needs to accept the responsibility
for her own progress. To fulfill this need Sweet Briar in 1932
instituted the Honors Plan of Study for qualified students.

Under this plan, the student satisfies half the requirements
in her junior and senior years by working independently un-
der tutorial guidance. Thus she is freed from much of the
routine of classes and assignments, and can devote her
energies and time to proceeding at her own pace. Her work
is supervised by a professor in the department concerned and
the student confers with him regularly. At the end of the
two years she takes comprehensive examinations, both oral
and written, and these are judged by members of the depart-
ment and a visiting examiner from the faculty of another col-
lege. The student who does well is graduated with honors,
high honors or highest honors in the field of her study.

Nannette McBurney (left) is reading (or
honors in modern British history with
special emphasis on the nineteenth cen-
tury, particularly British foreign policy.
Alan Cassels (right). Visiting Lecturer in
History, is her supervisor. Mr. Cassels,
who has been in this country for five
years, hails from England and is a grad-
uate of Oxford. James Rowley, Asso-
ciate Professor of History (left), is direct-
ing Kim McMurtry (right) in her study of
American History. She is concentrating
mainly on the period of the Civil War.

OF STUDY

A critical paper on the Dialogues of Plato is being undertaken by Bets
Cherbuck under the direction of Lawson Crowe, Instructor in Philosophy.

Above, Milan Hapala, Associate Profes-
sor of Government and Economics, stops
to discuss a point of interest with Laurie
Lanier and Polly Benson. Laurie is
reading for honors in Government, con-
centrating primarily on political theory
and comparative political institutions.
Gladys Boone, Professor of Economics,
is in charge of Polly's work, which in-
volves a double major. In Economics,
her special topic is the classical school
of economists and their relation to pres-
ent-day theorists, and in Government
the is working on the rule of law.

Ethel Ramage, Professor of English, is

holding a tutorial session in Nineteenth

Century poetry for Susan Day, Shirley

McCallum and Jane Pinckney,

ANNUAL MEETING

THE annual meeting of the Sweet Briar Alumnae Asso-
ciation was held Monday, June 3, 1957, following
luncheon in Reid Refectory. Approximately 120 Alumnae
were present. Gladys Wester Horton, '30g, President of
the Association, presided and introduced the members of
the Executive Board. The minutes were approved as read.

Nancy Dowd Burton, '46g, Fund chairman, announced
that Sweet Briar had again made the cover of the Alumni
Council News, placing tenth among graduate contributors.
She reported that the Executive Board had voted to try for a
10% increase in contributors and urged active alumnae
support. As of June 3, over 2000 alumnae had contributed
$26,435.42 to the as yet incomplete Fund drive. Many
classes had already surpassed their 1955-56 records, in
either amount of contributions or number of contributors.

Gladys Horton described the newly-formed Sweet Briar
Fund, a long range program combining the Alumnae, De-
velopment, and Parents Funds, with automatic crediting
and specification, yet without duplication of appeals.

Sally Shcillenberger Brown, '32g, member of the Board
of Overseers, reminded those present that any college de-
velopment program is never really through. As the Board's
Chairman of Corporations, she requested alumnae to inves-
tigate corporations in their areas, notifying the College
Development Office for follow-ups. Any information on
foundations should be handled in a similar manner.

Phoebe Roue Peters, '31g, First Vice-President and Di-
rector of Alumnae Clubs, announced that 38 of the 44 clubs
had sold 536,274 worth of bulbs. About 50% of the clubs
had contributed a total of S8,l42 to the Rollins Fund,
Round-Up Parties had been given in 18 cities, with more
scheduled for the fall. Two new scholarships will be
awarded in the fall, bringing the total to 15 in all. The
Anne Gary Pannell Bowl, presented annually to the club
giving the most money for scholarships, went to the Rich-
mond Club with its donation of $6,301.20.

Gertrude Dally Massie, '22g, explained the Sweet Briar
Memorial Chapel Building Fund, of which she is chairman.

The reports of the Ways and Means Committee, headed
by Barbara Lis/er Edgerley, '51g, and of the Executive Sec-
retary, Elizabeth Bond Wood, '34g, were given. Mrs.
Wood announced that, as of the fall issue, all issues of the
Alumnae News would be mailed to all alumnae. She
included among the high points of her year the publication
of the Sweet Briar History, the alumnae adoption of the
Rollins Fund, and the Iren Marik Concert, sponsored joint-
ly by Sweet Briar, Randolph-Macon, and Lynchburg Col-
leges for Hungarian relief.

In the order of new business, Ann Alorr/son Reams, '42g,
presented the proposed names of the Nominating Commit-
tee, of which she is chairman. As there were no additional
names to be added to the list, the slate was adopted.

Prince Trimmer, '56g, Chairman of the Portrait Com-
mittee, reported that various artists had been consulted with
regard to Mrs. Pannell's portrait and it was hoped that
during the coming year the painting might be completed.

The senior class was commended on its performance at
stepsinging. There being no further business, the meeting
was adjourned.

Prince Trimmer, '56g

THE ALUMNAE

NOMINATING
COMMITTEE
BEGINS WORK

The 1957-58 Nominating Committee, made up of seven
Lynchburg, Virginia, alumnae will begin work this summer
in order to present a slate of officers and executive board
members for election in the spring of 1958.

Anne Alomson Reams, '42, is chairman of the committee
which has as members Edna Lee Gilchrist, '26, Amelia
Hollis Scott, '39, Lucy Harrison Miller Baber, '30, Pauline
Lankford Payne, '35, Nida Tomlin Watts, '40, and Mary
Morris Gamble Booth, '50.

The committee will nominate a president, first vice-presi-
dent, fund chairman, nominating chairman, nine regional
chairmen, and six members at large. The second vice-presi-
dent will be nominated by next year's senior class from
members of that class and the one which preceded it.

Alumnae everywhere are urged to send suggestions for
members of the executive board to the committee in care of
Mrs. Bernard Reams, 7 North Princeton Circle, Lynchburg,
Virginia, or to the Alumnae Office at Sweet Briar.

Congratulating Gertrude Dally Massie. '22g, following her speech on the
Memorial Chapel Building Fund at the annual meeting of the Sweet Briar
Alumnae Association are (left to right): Elizabeth Bond Wood, '34g, Executive

Alumnae Neus^^^^

ASSOCIATION

New Officers Chosen At Reunion
1917

Pit'shie)il: Polly Bissell Ridler
Viiiid Ageiil: Rachel LInyd Holton
Secret jr\: Dorothy Grdiiniier Croyder

1937

Pit'siJeiit: Dorothy Prniit Gorsuch
Fund Aj^eiil: Natalie Hopkins Griggs
Class Secretary: Agnes Crawford Bates

1942

President: Betsy Gilmer Tremain
Fund Agent: Nancy Daiis Reynolds
Ruth Hensley Camblos
Secretary: Jeanne Sawyer Faggi

1947

President: Sara A. McMrillen Lindsey
Fund Agent: Meredith Slane Finch
Secretary: Nan Hart Stone

1952

President: Jackie Razook Chamandy
Fund Agent: Martha Legg
Secretary: Josie Sibold

jecretary; Phoebe Rowe Peters, '31g, Director of Clubs; Gladys Wester
tlorlon. '30<3, President ol the Association; Helen McMahon, '23g, former
executive Secretary; and Mrs. Massie, Chairman of the Chapel Fund.

ALUMNAE GIFTS 1956-1957

Alumnae have been very generous to Sweet Briar this
year. The alumnae fund has already surpassed all former
records and for tiiis we are grateful to every contributor and
especially to Nancy Dowd Burton, ■46g, fund chairman, and
to the class fund agents. A final and full report will appear
in the October Alumnai-; News.

Alumnae Fund $ 28,933.54

Reunion gift from class of '32 .... 1,020.00

Benedict Scholarship 550.00

Local scholarships from clubs .... 10,721.13

Rollins Fund from 24 clubs 8,142.64

Alumnae gifts to the Development

Program 45,168.00

Chapel Memorial Fund 242.00

Richmond Club for Burnett Dining

Room 625.00

Total $ 95,402.31

Club Gifts

These clubs have contributed to the Rollins Fund:

Atlanta S 235.00

Boston 300.00

Central Ohio 75.00

Charleston, W. Va 175.00

Charlotte 85.15

Charlottesville 370.00

Chattanooga 350.00

Chicago 100.00

Cincinnati 350.00

Lynchburg 350.00

Minneapolis 200.00

New York 1,000.00

Norfolk 350.00

Northern New Jersey 100.00

Peninsula Club of Virginia .... 100.00

Pittsburgh 300.00

Richmond 300.00

Roanoke 225.00

Rochester 500.00

San Francisco 30.00

Spartanburg 47.49

Toledo ^00.00

Washington, DC 2,000.00

Wilmington, Del 100.00

Total S8, 142.64

Area Scholarships

These clubs are among the fifteen clubs offering area or
local scholarships, and have sent the amounts listed below
during 1956-57:

" Baltimore S 300.00

Long Island 1,000.00

(to start an endowed scholarship)

Montgomery 800.00

Northern New Jersey 250.00

Richmond 6,301.20

(to endow the Betty Maury Valentine
Scholarship)

Southern Connecticut 300.00

St. Louis 150.00

Washington, D. C 1,119.93

Westchester County 500^00

Total SlA72lTl3

Jl'NE 1957

A Sweet Briar Memorial Chapel

by Gertrude Di/Z/y Massie. '22g

"A[y i-onlribi/lion to the Memorial
Chapel Fund was a token of the great
spiritual satisfaction I received from
the one year I sang in the choir."

Adelaide Boze Glascock, '40g

"It is wonderful news to hear that
you and your committee hare plans for
eventually having a memorial chapel at
Street Briar. I think it has been one of
the crying needs, and its actuality trill
bring happiness to all — choir and
alumnae both."

Betsy Durham Goodhue. '39g

"/ will be happy to serve on your ad-
visory committee. I trill do all I can
to help."
The Reverend Robert Applevard

"/ am indeed thankful that, at last,
there is a Chapel Fund being started
/oci'.Z)." Henrietta Washburn, 'I4g

"I can't think of anything I irould
rather share in than a Chapel for Street
Briar and you can certainly count on
me." Jane Becker Clippinger, '25g

"I can never say 'No' when I am
asked to serve Sweet Briar in any ivay!
The Memorial Chapel appeals to me
and I am delighted to trork on the com-
mittee. It should have an appeal to
everyone."

Margaret Thomas Kruesi. '12

"Your note is with me and the neivs
of your committee for a Chapel —
and that is exciting and thrilling to
anticipate. I would like to serve on the
committee and tvill say 'Yes'."
Florence Bodine Mountcastle, '24g

"The news of a Street Briar Chapel
brings joy to my heart and I am de-
lighted to think that a fund is being
started."

Frances Pennvpacker. 'I5g

"Enclosed is a check . . . I do wish
it could be $10,000 . . . Hoiv lovely it
will be for Sweet Briar to have a beau-
tiful little Chapel on the grounds!"
Marjorie DuShane Stedman, '13

"/ can visualize the chapel as a very

beautiful and needed addition to the

college. It seems to give a college

campus the feeling of unity and spirit."

Anne Orr Savage, '48

THESE and many other expressions
of interest and enthusiasm for the
chapel have been received in response
to a letter sent to former members of
Sweet Briar choirs from 1906-1956.

First of all, let me clear up what may
constitute a misunderstanding regard-
ing the Sweet Briar Memorial Chapel.
A year ago this June, a fund called
"Chapel Memorial Fund" was estab-
lished, sponsored by the class of 1919
under the leadership of Florence Free-
man Fowler and Carolyn Sbarpe San-
ders, in tribute to Rosanne Gilmore.
The purpose of this fund was ex-
pressed as follows:

"Our plan is that, instead of send-
ing flowers or giving a sum to charity
when we learn of the death of a Sweet
Briar friend, we would send to the
college a memorial gift to be placed
in a special Chapel Memorial Fund and
designated tor special furnishings of
the Chapel. No solicitation shall be
made for this memorial fund. It merely
gives us an opportunity to express
honor and affection for our deceased
Sweet Briar friends."

SWEET BRIAR MEMORIAL
CHAPEL BUILDING FUND, on the
other hand, is to be secured from con-
tributions and memorial gifts from
alumnae, students, faculty and staff,
and friends of the college in memory
of their families or friends.

This building fund was officially in-
augurated on March 17th, at a piano
recital given bv a senior, Alice Barnes,
in Manson Hall. This was the first of
a series of four recitals arranged by the
Music Department in conjunction with
the Chapel Building Fund Committee,
for the benefit of the Sweet Briar
Memorial Chapel. Prior to that date,
many gifts had been given to Sweet
Briar for the purpose of building a
chapel.

On March 9th, the letter referred to
above was sent out to former choir
members, who. we thought, because of
their former interest and concern for
chapel services in the past, might form
a nucleus of alumnae who would sup-
port a building project for the chapel.

The response thus far, both verbal
and financial, has been most encourag-
ing: $4,050.00 has come in represent-
ing gifts and pledges in memory of

alumnae, triends, faculty, and staff,
just since March 9th. In addition to
this amount, we have early gifts total-
ling $3,186.65, and Half-Century cam-
paign gifts and pledges amounting to
$5,162.90, making a grand total of
$12,399.55.

This is a fine start. But we need
nearly fifty times that amount before
we can see a beautiful brick chapel with
its towering white spire, which so
rightfully deserves a place on our be-
loved campus, and whose spiritual im-
pact will be felt by generations to come.
Therefore let us examine some facts
and figures, and make some supposi-
tions.

We have in our Sweet Briar Family
apiproximately 6,000 persons. If each
one of these were to contribute $50.00
this year, and $50.00 next year, we
could build and completely equip the
chapel ! This sounds like a very simple
solution to our need for chapel build-
ing funds. But chapels, like other
buildings, are not built with supposi-
tions. We cannot reach all of these
6,000 persons, nor will those whom we
succeed in reaching, be able to con-
tribute $50.00 a year for two years.
Therefore we shall have to secure some
large gifts as well as many small gifts.
But the important thing right now is
that every person who wants a chapel
at Sweet Brir>r, sut>t>orl this project to
the best of his or her ability.

Buford Scott, Development Council chair-
man and Overseer, with a member of the
graduating class, his daughter, Margery.

Alumnae News

"Over Two Million"

PRESIDENT Annt- Pannell's annual
commencement report of recent
gifts to the college was shared this
year by six members of the audience,
each of whom announced gifts from
various divisions of the college.

Diane Dufheld, president of the
class of 1957, handed Mrs. Pannell
a check for $250.13 for the Rollins
Fund, representing the senior class
gift to the college. Diane said: "Dr.
Rollins has always held a special place
in the hearts of the students and com-
munity, and in our small way the class
of '57 would like to help this endowed
Professorship be established in the
year of our graduation. I would also
like to take this opportunity to extend
to Mrs. Pannell, the Sweet Briar Faculty
and Administration, our deepest grati-
tude for all that you have done for us.
I speak for my class when I say that
Sweet Briar will always be very close
to our hearts. "

Lee Haskell, retiring chairman of
the Student Development Committee,
presented a check for $2,330, also for
the Rollins Fund. This is the largest
amount ever raised by this committee.

Nancy Dowd Burton, '46, chairman
of the Alumnae Fund, announced a to-
tal of 526,351 as of that date, of which
$17,000 has been allocated for faculty
salaries, the rest for the Rollins Fund.

Gladys Wester Horton, '30, presi-
dent of the Alumnae Association, re-
ported a total of 565,844 in other
alumnae gifts to the college, including
545,168 to the Development Program
for various purposes.

Professor G. Noble Gilpin, chair-
man of the Campus Development
Committee, reported a total of 564,7-44
to the Development Program over the
past four years. "Even more import-
ant than the amount," he said, "is the
practically unanimous endorsement, by
all who study and teach and work on
this campus, of this effort to strengthen
Sweet Briar." Mr. Gilpin noted that
"in addition to the funds contributed
by the Student Development Commit-
tee and the senior class, 100*"?- of the
faculty and staff and 98'"r of the stu-
dents have made personal contributions
to the De\clopment Program."

Alexander Donnan, chairman of the
Parents Fund Committee, reported that

parents of Sweet Briar students, past
and present, ha\'e contributed 55-4.000
to the college in the past year, making
a total of 5185,000 from parents dur-
ing the Half-Century campaign.

Mrs. Pannell extended "the thanks
of the entire college for the generosity
of its alumnae, faculty and staff, stu-
dents, parents, and friends." Her own
report of recent gifts to the college is
published here, for those who were not
present to hear it:

President Reports Gifts

A YEAR AGO, the Kresge Foun-
dation offered Sw-eet Briar Col-
lege $50,000 to establish the Wallace
Rollins Professorship of Religion, pro-
vided the college raised an additional
$100,000 for the same purpose within
18 months. Two-thirds of that time
has elapsed, and the Rollins Fund is
iiiore than two-thirds completed.
Thanks to Sweet Briar Clubs and indi-
vidual alumnae throughout the coun-
try, aided by Dr. Rollins' former stu-
dents at the 'Virginia Theological Sem-
inary, who wanted to have a share in
honoring their former Dean, and by
our own faculty, staff, and students,
the Rollins Fund now totals $78,000.
■With this much in hand, I am confident
that we will complete the fund, claim
the Kresge grant, and establish the
Rollins Professorship well before our
December 1, 1957, deadline.

I am also happy to report the estab-
lishment this year of two other en-
dowed chairs.

A gift of 5113,000 made in honor
of Dr. Connie M. Guion in 1955 by
Laurance, Nelson, Da\id, and Win-
throp Rockefeller and their sister, Mrs.
Jean Mauze, has been designated by
the donors as "The Rockefeller-Guion
Professorship of Chemistry," to which
Professor Dorothy Thompson of our
Chemistry Department has been ap-
pointed as the first incumbent.

Dr. Guion also suggested to Mr.
and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, who in
1955 gave Sweet Briar 550,000 in her
honor, that this gift be designated as
"The Betsey Gushing and John Hay
Whitney Professorship of Physics."
They both agreed, just before leaving
this country for England, where Mr.
Whitney is now our Ambassador to
the Court of St. James's.

College Matches Ford Grant

Approximately $620,000 has been
added to our endowment for faculty
salaries during the Half-Century cam-
paign, half of this coming from the
Ford Foundation, whose grant of
$311,900 we are very proud to have
matched.

Two recent gifts have been made for
endowed scholarships. Rebecca Ash-
craft Warren, of the class of 1926, has
added nearly $6,000 to the Mary and
Lee Ashcraft Scholarship estabUshed
earlier by Mrs. Warren and her daugh-
ter, Mary Lee Ashcraft McGinnis,
class of 1954, both of Memphis, Ten-
nessee.

"The Lady Astor Scholarship"

I am happy to announce today a iietv
scholarship, established in honor of
Nancy, 'Viscountess Astor, with a gift
of $5,000 from her friend Mrs. Charles
Ulrick Bay of New York. Lady Astor
is a member of Sweet Briar's Council
of Sponsors and has been a staunch
friend and supporter of this college
for many years.

An additional gift for the new
Science Building, of Si 6,886 from two
Sweet Briar parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bu-
ford Scott of Richmond, brings to
$20,000 their gifts to date for this
much needed new building. Their
daughter Margery Scott graduates to-
day, but her sister Mary Denny Scott
will take her place in the new fresh-
man class in September. Other recent
gifts for the Science Building have in-
cluded $10,000 from the Brown-For-
man Corporation and $2,000 from an
anonymous corporation.

The present total of gifts designated
for a new- Auditorium is more than
$525,000. More than $12,000 has been
raised for a Memorial Chapel, thanks
to ths efforts of Mrs. Adrian Massie.

"Well Over Two Million"

All told, the college's family and
friends ha\e given more than $1,950,-
000 for buildings and endowment dur-
ing the Half-Century campaign. In-
cluded in this figure is $176,000 from
corporations and indi\iduals from
Lynchburg and Amherst County —
$26,000 more than the original goal
of 5150,000 set by Mr. Lawson Tur-
ner's local Development committee.
Counting 5120.000 in gifts for other
purposes, well o\ er two million dollars
has been given to the college as a 50th
anniversary present — • a record we
may all be proud of.

June 1957

CLUBS

Sweet Briar Day was observed by
forty i^roups this year. Among these
Memphis, Columbia, S. C, Augus-
ta, Ga., Durham and Greensboro,

N. C Lck-brated this occasion either
for the tirst time or the tirst time in
several years.

Alumnae clubs everywhere have
done an outstanding fund-raising job
this year. Of course the bulb sale is
the Sweet Briar Alumnae's biggest
project with 40 clubs participating this
spring. The results of this will be re-
ported in the October Nhws. Our hats
off to the Washington Club for mas-
ter-minding this project which had
gross sales last year of $36,000.

The New York Club is to be con-
gratulated on its most successful theatre
benefit which netted $.3,464. Other
clubs in large cities please take note !

Montgomery, Ala., alumnae sur-

prised themsehes and delighted every-
one by the smashing success of a lunch-
eon for 200 at the Montgomery Coun-
try Club which was followed by an
antiques auction. The profit of $800
has been sent to Sweet Briar to start an
endowed scholarship.

Richmond, Va., was awarded the
Anne Gary Pannell bowl for having
given the largest amount this year for
a local scholarship. To endow the
Betty Alainy Valentine scholarship this
club' sent $6,301 to Sweet Briar.

Chicago and Colvmibus, Ga.,
both sponsored concerts by Iren Mar-
ik. Columbus writes, "We had marvel-
ous publicity and Miss Marik was won-
derful and we made S450 which we are
setting aside as a start for a local schol-
arship." Small clubs please note that
this was done by one of our smallest
and newest clubs !

Westchester County and Toledo

had rummage sales. __ No report has
come from Westchester, but Toledo's
sale as always was most profitable.
Small in number but great in energy
and devotion to Sweet Briar, this group
has sent S'SOO to the Rollins Fund and
SlOO to a local scholarship.

At the Sweet Briar Day coHee in Augusta Isabelle North Goodwin models the dress, a
ilaming red, beaded creation, which was her pride and joy as a freshman. Admiring her
elegant attire are (seated) Eleanor Henderson Merry, and (standing, left to right) Mary
Barrett Robertson, Carol Weitzel, a senior, Becky Towill, a freshman, and Katherine

Phinizy Mackie.

These Montgomery alumnae are rightfully
proud of their highly successful luncheon
and auction. Caroline Rudulph Sellers.
Betty Holloway Harmon, Elizabeth Joseph
Boykin, and Virginia Oliver Bear.

St. Louis has joined the list of clubs
that offer area scholarships. In addi-
tion, this club sponsored a most suc-
cessful demonstration in flower arrang-
ing this spring.

The Lynchburg alumnae, in a joint
project with the alumnae of Randolph-
Macon and Lynchburg College spon-
sored Iren Marik in a concert trom
which $2,000 was sent for Hungarian
relief. Miss Marik also played at a
concert sponsored by the Richmond
Club for the benefit of the Hungarians.
The Chattanooga Club joins the list
of clubs having had successful Round-
up parties when Betty Smartt Johnson
gave an elegant supper party for alum-
nae and friends of Sweet Briar on April
22. Phoebe Roue Peters, Director of
Clubs, was the speaker and Mary Lee
McGinnis, Director of Region 'VIII
went from Memphis to the party.

As a result of the party given in At-
lanta by Mary Chirk Rogers, with Edna
Lee Gilchrist as guest speaker, the
Atlanta Club has pledged $1,000 for
the Rollins Fund !

Buffalo. New York is the newest
Sweet Briar club to be organized —
thanks to Mary Moore Pcinciike Mande-
ville and Terry Fdulkner Phillips.

Northern New Jersey had success-
ful bridge parties.

The majority of the clubs entertained
tor prospective students, showing the
slides and movies. This year Indiana-
polis and the Twin City clubs joined
this group. One of the largest of
these parties was held in Cleveland.
Ohio, and we are delighted to note that
we have 5 girls coming from there this
year.

Alumnae News

CLASS NOTES

1913

Presideiil: Elizabfth Franke (Mrs. Kent

Balls), 304 Meridian St., West Lafavctte.

Ind.

Secretary: Mary Pinkerton (Mrs. James

Kerr), 5365A Carnar\on Drive. Nortclk 2,

Va.

Fund Agciii: Mary Clark (Mrs. Clarence

Rogers) I 205 Beverly Rd., N. E., Atlanta,

Ga.

Marion Peele kindly gave me permission
to repeat parts of a letter from Linda
Wright, which came to Marion from Ruby
and Winnie VCalker. Linda writes, "I
joined the AAL'W as an associate member
soori after coming to California and entered
the Creative Day spring contest for writing.
I won se\eral awards. Then I became so
engrossed with my music teaching I had to
give up that avocation. Since I have re-
tired (last year, to live with my sister in a
darling house) I decided to try taking my
writer's pen in hand again and mailed a
short story last week for this spring con-
test. I also have been taking a pupil in
musi,c. How I wish you and all my Sweet
Briar friends might see our house. If you
ever come to beautiful La Jolla. the Riviera
of the Pacific, you have a cordial invitation
to visit us. We are three blocks from the
ocean which is just a nice walk. Our house
is tiny and modern. It has a plain stucco
frontage with no windows, except two long
narrow ones, just beneath the flat roof. They
are of fluted glass, which lets in light only.
An acacia tree, which has just finished
blooming, is up against the house and at the
comer is a beautiful, tall, spreading, euca-
lyptus tree. Inside, the entire south wall of
the living room is glass, with sliding doors
opening onto a darling patio, with honey-
suckle, jasmine, trumpet vine, and hibiscus."

On February 28 1 went to a most enjoy-
able "cofiee" at Sue Slaughter's house. I
went with Louise Haufier Ewell. Marion
Peele, and Margaretha Ribble's sister-in-
law. Alma Booth Taylor \\'as pouring
coffee. Sue Slaughter spent March 28 to
April 1 in New York. She saw Margaretha
Ribble, Sue Hjrdie Bell, and Dr. Connie
Guion. Margaretha plans to lighten her
medical duties and we hope she will have
time to visit her home state of Virginia. We
congratulate our own Dr. Guion on her
latest recognition: an honorary degree of
Doctor of Science from Queens College in
Charlotte, N. C. (not New York as re-
ported in the last issue of the News.]

Lucile Marshidl Boethelt writes, "Both
daughters visited us last winter and the
two grand-daughters stayed with us while
their parents went to the ocean farther
south. I was glad to have my conservation
committee get the Estelle King Conserva-
tion award (and $25) for the best work in
the Florida Federation of Garden CiUibs.
This was for the Winter Park Garden Club
and the ^X'orkshop we had for the Orlando

^Henuiriam

Acid. Mildred Montgomery Massey
1922 Edith Bailey Stites,

April, 1957.
1927 Marie Langford Johnson,

April 9, 1957.
1929 Mar jorie Allen Eddy,

October 22, 1955.
1929 Virginia Hodgson Sutliff

June, 1957
1934 Virc.inia Hcdl Lederer,

March, 1957.
1948 Mary Frank Farley,

March 10, 1957.

Garden Club won honorable mention for
education in conservation. Mr. Beverly
Hudson (formerly of Amherst, 'Va.) is vice-
president of the Central Florida Horticul-
tural Society of which I am president. '

1917

President: Polly Bissell (Mrs. Earl S.

Ridler), 608 Lindsay Rd., Wilmington 3,

Delaware.

Secretary: DoROTHY Grammer (Mrs.

Harry A. Croyder), 44 Kent Place Blvd.,

Summit, N. J.

Fund Agent: Rachel Lloyd (Mrs. Hoyt

Holton), 2318 Densmore Drive, Toledo 6,

Ohio.

Dear 1917:

Three members only of the class of 1917
were here for the fortieth re-union. Genie
Steele Hardy, Rachel Lloyd Holton and I.
Rachel's hair is still brow-n. No comments
on Genie's and mine. We enjoyed our-
selves but missed the rest of you.

Betty Loirman Hall, 'IS, came with
Rachel and was treated as the junior she is.
VC'ith the exception of Mary CLirk Rogers
of Atlanta, '13, and Nan Powell Hodges,
'10 — the latter left Sunday for commence-
ment at her Stuart Hall — members of 1917
were the senior group on campus. This
was a rather novel experience for me, for
commencement usually brings back to col-
lege a number of alumnae from earlier class-
es. Apparently most of them had made a
desperate effort to attend Sweet Briar's
fiftieth anniversary- last year and ignored
their alma mater this time. However. 1917
thoroughly enjoyed the distinction of sen-
iority, and Genie and Rachel led the alumnae
in the academic procession.

The class picnic on Sunday night was
held at my house. Betty Lowman Hall,
of course, was a welcome addition, as were
Mary Clark Rogers and her husband, who
was without doubt the lion of the evening.
We were delighted, also, to have with us

Mrs. Dew, Miss Ruth Howland and the
Walkers, both Miss Ruby and Miss Wini-
fred. Dr. Harley could not make it. She
felt she needed to save the strength of her
ninety-one years for the alumnae banquet on
Monday night when she would be able to
see a great many more of her old friends.
She has told me since that it was a wonder-
ful occasion !

Thirty-six questionnaires were sent out
to the class of 1917, and twelve were re-
turned. Nine of the twelve members stressed
their role of grandmothers, proudly
claiming a total of fifty-se\en grandchildren.
The prize goes to Gertrude Piper Ski Hern
with fourteen. Elsie Palmer Parkhurst fol-
lows with ten. She sent a picture of a stair-
step of nine taken at Christmas, one baby
was pasted on later (an amendment, she
says) and another one is expected in July.
Three of her children live near her, and the
youngest at Ardmore. "So that makes a
very busy person of me, and I am sure many
of ycu have found that grandmothers were
never so needed," she adds.

Other interests of 1917 include church,
AALfW, literary, art and garden clubs.
Girl Scouts, politics, ser\ice on boards, and
travel. A few combine some of these acti-
vities with jobs — Jane Henderson, Mary
Whitehead Van Hyning and yours truly.
There are no doubt others, but where are
the remaining questionnaires? Do you have
a job.^ was answered feelingly by several
homemakers with an emphatic exclamation
point! Any sympathetic snorts?

While three of us were re-unioning,
Polly Bissell Ridler and her husband were
sailing through the Panama Canal on the
maiden voyage of the Matsonia from New
■i'ork to Los Angeles. They are to return
by air with several stop-overs — Las Vegas,
Zion, Grand and Bryce Canyons. Salt Lake
City and Minneapolis. A new grandson
awaits them in Minneapolis.

Katherine Broirne Camlin also reported
travel plans, a trip abroad in May. Ruth
Mcltrarey Logan writes that she and her
husband just returned from a trip to the
South Seas. Australia, and New Zealand,
and that they went to the Orient last year.
During the fall of 1956 Ruth came E.ist
and visited Sweet Briar, but all too briefly.

We are indeed sorry to hear that Faye
Abraham Pethick entered Duke Hospital in
Durham, N. C, in January after severe
asthmatic attacks. 'W'hile in the hospital
she sufl^ered a heart attack and a paralytic
stroke. Her husband writes that she has
shown some improvement since leaving the
hospital on March 8. and we sincerely
hope that her recovery will soon be com-
plete.

Margaret Gibson Bowman, wife of Col
Milton S. Bowman, V. S. A.. Ret., is the
mother of one son and has one grandchild
She says, "I am breathlessly busy at all
times, doing nothing worthwhile." We dis-
count this. She gives church and travel
as interests.

lUNE 1957

Dorothy Gwimmer Croyder reports her
two sons married, one with two children.
Her daughter. Wary Page, is in the Per-
sonnel Dept. of N.Y.L'. She graduated
from Sweet Briar in 19''4 and we caught
brief glimpses of Dorothy at the time.
However, being a parent at commencement
here entails certain obligations, almost full
time ones. I would say, and does not per-
mit freedom to participate fully in re-union
activities, but we were glad to have a small
part of her. to say the least.

Jane Tv/f' Griffith and husband. Dalton,
live in Wellesley Hills. Mass. They have
one son. Jane, like others of our group,
admits her hair is practically white. In
the spring of 1954 she was at Sweet Briar
with a friend, "just to have lunch and a look
around." Sorry not to have seen her.

Genie Steele Hardy tells me that her
son. John Allison, Jr., has taken over "Lone
Pine Plantation" and that she lives in
Columbus as does one daughter (both
girls are married.) Genie and her sister El-
eanor were here for commencement last
year, also Genie's little granddaughter Mar-
garet, a perfectly charming child of about
nine who says she is going to attend Sweet
Briar some day, as will some of the other
fifty-seven odd class grandchildren. I hope.
Genie came alone this time, claiming that
she practically took the next plane after a
flight back from Texas in order to get here
for re-union. As interests she had listed
church, children, clubs. I discovered that
she is president of the city-wide organiza-
tion of Women of the Presbyterian Church,
and was a recent "Woman of the Year." I
also wormed out of her that she still makes
speeches, some to men's service clubs, chief-
ly on the topic of constitutional govern-
ment !

Rachel Lloyd Holton. likewise, is busy
with family (three grandchildren) church
and D.A.R. In addition, she has done a
corking good job as class funds chairman.
My hat off to her. for she never missed an
opportunity to let me know in a nice way
that she knew I had not made my contribu-
tion to the fund this year. (I did not dare
face her as a delinquent, so paid up short-
ly before she arrived.)
At any rate we appreciate her fine service,
also that of Dorothy Croyder as class sec-
retary' and Polly as president. The latter
asked us to elect some one else, but we said
please no resignations, insisted that the
three continue, and refused to discuss the
matter further. I am sure the rest of you
approve.

Now as to myself. 'VX'hat would you like
to know.' Job-' I still teach sociology in
the Division of Social Studies at Sweet
Briar and love it. Rank? Associate pro-
fessor. College Committees? Several, time
consuming and arduous, but interesting and
none that I want to give up. Outside ac-
tivities ? A few in the county and state to
try practicing what I preach, and for fun,
as part of the double life I lead as a farm-
er's wife outside academic circles. Ben and
I travel when we can — made a hurried
automobile trip to Florida during spring
vacation and hope to attend a family wed-
ding in Texas in August. While I cannot
join the proud fraternity of class grandmo-
thers, I am a doting great-aunt many times
over, and serve notice now that I will be
prepared to meet the fusillade of baby pic-

tures with an exhibit of my own at next
reunion.

Remember. I am always here at Sweet
Briar, always glad to see you, and invite you
most cordially right now to hold the class
picnic at my house on Sunday night at our
forty-fifth in 1962.

My very best to all of you.

Bertha Pfister Wailes

1918

Presideiil: Cornelia Carroll (Mrs. K. N.

Gardner). Yorktown. 'Va.

Secret Jty: ESTHER Turk (Mrs. H. H. Hem-

mings), 230 West 79th St., Nev\' York 24,

N. Y.

Fund A,^ei!t: 'Vivienne Barkalow (Mrs.

Stanley K. Hornbeck). 2139 Wyoming Ave.,

N. W., Washington. D. C.

It looks as though we must all be 39
years older, but we're still in there pitch-
ing. Catherine Aljishjll Shuler writes that
they had to abandon plans for a trip to Mex-
ico this year, but that Des Moines still
seemed wonderful though they had divided
the previous year between Florida. Europe.
California and Texas. Priscilla Broun Cald-
well says that last year was an eventful one
for her family because their son Jim. 21,
was married in April. After that they sailed
for England, then crossed to the continent,
flying from Paris to Copenhagen. They
loved the Scandinavian countries and would
have liked to prolong the visit. Later they
spent some time with their married daugh-
ter and her three children, before returning
to California. Now they can report more
news, the birth of a grandson. James Nelson
Caldwell IV. Mary Reed seems to have
been staying home for a change, making
friends with an adorable grandnephew, Billy
Greene III, who pays her frequent visits.
She enclosed a leaflet of a country sale, run
by the S. B. C. Alumnae Club of West-
chester which is very active and successful.
Personally. I have been trying to pin Betty
Loicnijii Hall to a definite date to come
and visit me the end of June. Sevenoaks,
our country home, is not far from Elmira.
Summer slips away so fast each year and in
August we sail again for England to rejoin
our daughter and number four son who are
living over there. Marianne Martin really
deserves a medal for she writes from the
Hospital. She has been there several months
but is recovering. She says. "Have seen
Lucy Taliaferro a number of times since I
have been here, and had lunch with her.
Have also seen Carrie Taliaferro (Mrs. Tom
Scott) and been out to her house for lunch
with Lucy." I visited Miss Caroline Spar-
row yesterday afternoon. She is a cheerful
eighty. She lives alone in the Chesterfield
Apartments here, but does not have to worry
about meals as there is a dining room. She
is tottery on her feet (she always was) but
still enthusiastic and happy. One of Mattie
Hammond Smith's daughters is being mar-
ried this spring. Cornelia Carroll Gardener
writes. "I have taken a summer job as hos-
tess in the exhibition building at Williams-
burg. It is only 12 miles away over a beau-
tiful country drive and I find the whole
thing very satisfying. The peninsula is
keenly interested in the S^Oth Anniversary
of the Jamestown settlement and the festival
is now going on. The firm my son-in-law
and his father own built the replicas of the
original ships, the Susan Constant, the Dis-

covery and the Godspeed. As 'Captain
Newport' of the Susan Constant he has ac-
tually sailed that ship!" She adds that her
daughter is returning to Sweet Briar for her
loth Class Reunion.

1922

President: Elizabeth Huber (Mrs. Wil-
liam NX'elch II), 742 Sunset Road, Glenside,
Pa.

Secretary: Grizzelle THOMSON, 1901
Claremont Ave., Norfolk, Va.
Fund Agent: Katherine Shenehon (Mrs.
Louis W. Child). 1814 Knox Ave., S.
Minneapolis 5. Minn.

Our reunion will have passed into his-
tory by the time you read this. The report
from Huber does not indicate that many
will attend. Lilias Shepherd Williamson,
who is living in Ridgefield. Conn., is too
busy straightening out her affairs to return
now but hopes to in the near future. Her
favorite diversion is skiing.

Ruth F/ske Steegars furnace backfired, or
exploded, and her entire house was filled
with oily soot, with some curtains entirely
ruined. Though the house was co\'ered by
insurance, you can imagine what she is
going through, even with professional
cleaners. By the middle of June they go
to Maine, which makes Sweet Briar impos-
sible this year. She feels it's a shame, too,
because she did a bit of dieting recently
and is down to 132 lbs., the lowest in her
life, and she would be proud to show off
her Monroe (Marilyn not Virginia) curves.
Remember the time Lady Astor reprimanded
her for using rouge — probably the only girl
in our class who didn't need to use it and
she picked on Ruth. We all laughed.

Alice Babcock Simons has an invalid hus-
band so cannot be with us. Her aunt. Dr.
Guion. a member of the Sweet Briar Board
of Overseers, keeps her informed. Gert
Dally surprised her in April and she hopes
Gert thought she looked as young as Gert
did to her. Lilias spent a ni.ght with Alice
several years ago and was the same cute
Lilias.

Burd Dickson Stevenson's son was sta-
tioned at Fort Jackson and Alice enjoyed
meeting him and seeing Burd and her hus-
band again. Alice is purchasing agent for
her family's sanitarium and her interests are
family and gardening. She said. '"Wasn't
that monkey act horrible. I blush to think
of it."

Bernice Green Carper, Winfield, Iowa,
will be unable to return. Her husband has
retired; she says that she has ver^' few grey
hairs. Biz Fohl Kerr of Pittsburgh, whose
husband is a consulting engineer, has
two sons, Charles III, 27, and William,
20. She has a few grey hairs and her in-
terests are general, but she cannot get into
her college clothes. Now, Biz, your mem-
ory is slipping. You said you last return-
ed to Sweet Briar twenty years ago. You,
Gert. Selma. Edith Durrell Marshall, Grace
Merrick Twohy, Duffy Taylor and I were
back at Commencement about nine or ten
years ago. I can remember how you and
Gert argued just as you always did. how
little I felt you both had changed. Remem-
ber Gert got a telephone call saying that
daughter Adrianne had developed mumps.-
or some such affliction ?

Beulah Norris had expected to be at re-
union but her sister sold her home in New

Ahtiriiide News

Castle antl they have bought a beautiful
plaie with walled garJen in Key West. Fla.
She saiJ (inly a project ot cleaning out an
old house and disposing of things would
keep her away from Sweet Briar. Her per-
manent address will be 1026 Von Phister;
she wants you take this down and stop in to
see her if and when you get to Florida, for
she says everj'onc comes to Key West and
some like it so well they stay.

Gloria Frink Huntington is teaching the
third grade in Seattle. Her particular inter-
est is in North Coast Indian art. She has one
daughter and three grandchildren. She has
grey hair but can get into her college
clothes.

Katherine Minor Montague is still living
in Richmond. She has two boys. Hill III,
29, who received his B. S. in electrical en-
gineering at the University of Virginia, and
Minor, 21, who is in his third year of ROTC
at the University of Maryland. She is in-
terested in Gray Ladies, church work and
taking care of the grandchildren. She may
get to Sweet Briar.

Ruth UtLtiid Todd of Cincinnati has three
children, Samuel, Jr., 30, Elizabeth Todd
Lander, 28. Thomas, 23. and two grand-
children. She is interested in the Woman's
Club, College Club and bridge. She has
had a copper bowl, wedding gift from
Huber, on her bookcase these 33 years. Still
attends a 33 year old evening bridge club
with Dot Meyers Rixey, Edith Durretl Mar-
shall and Bo Taylor Schroth. Beanie Stein-
man belongs to an old afternoon brid.ge club
which meets periodically. They ha\'e ne\er
been able to get her interested in any Sweet
Briar doings. Beanie's absorbing interest
is in her niece's children.

Josephine Kelley Thomas, Gary, Ind., is
interested in music, civic, social and educa-
tional aftairs. She cannot return as her
lawyer husband is on the Board of Trustees
of Indiana L'niversity and they have to be
in Bloomington. Her husband is also a
past president of the State Law Examiners.
Her son. a lieutenant in the Air Force at
Grandvicw, Mo., is a C. P. A. and a gradu-
ate of Indiana LI. and Harvard Law School.
He married Bonnie Trapp of Atchison.
Kans.

Margaret Marsten, Emporia, Va., begs
anyone coming down Route 58 to the
Jamestown Festival to stop by, as they have
plenty of room and would love to see you.

My freshman roommate, Mary Kliimph
■Watson, had hoped to be at commencement
but on March 21 in Tucson, where they
were spending the winter, her husband died
in his sleep. Our heart goes out to her.
How well I remember when she came down
to the old Chamberlin Hotel at Old Point
to meet Stanley when he returned from
overseas in 1918-19. I wonder if she re-
members those huge posters we had all over
our walls that first year in Grammcr. Mary's
children are Thomas, 34. and Katherine
Danbcr, 33. She has two grandchildren.
Her interests are ornithology, gardening and
music. She has been wearing size ten
clothes for years and wrote, "Remember I
was th.ii big girl in '22. "

Huber has been busy as our class reunion
chairman. She is interested in a Blind
House, hospital and church work, bridge
and tennis. Has two boys, Robert, 31,
VC'illiam, 26. and two grandchildren.

Do come one and all to our Jamestown
Festival. It will be well worth the trip.

And call me when you get to Norfolk.
Well be at Virgmia Beach from June until
Sept. The phone is in my name there, and
in my aunt's name. Gertrude Thomson, in
town.

1923

SecrelM-y: Marih S. Klooz, 3026 Porter St.
N. W.. Washington 8, D. C.

Muriel M.ickenzic Kelly writes: "I too
find great pleasure and spiritual nourish-
ment from our quiet days, but we don't
have them very often . . . This has been a
sad fall and winter for us. Mrs. Kelly was
in the hospital for 9 weeks in the fall. Af-
ter her return to her apartment she didn't
pick up as she had thought she would, be-
came very sick and had to return to Wesley
hospital March 2. She was operated on the
next day and died of an embolism on March
4. The funeral was March 6th. the day
after her 83rd birthday. Our boys flew
from Washington and stayed with us until
the end of the week. It was a great pleas-
ure and comfort to have them with us. Ex-
cept for colds our grandchildren have been
well. Mother, Dode (Dorothy Mackenzie)
and Fred were here for Christmas, left the
2nd of January for Florida. They are still
there (March 26th!) having a good time.
We were with Balee and Yelena (Grg/nch
Prosch) to celebrate Balee's birthday in
February."

Just after Easter I got down to S.B. for
a day or so, saw the Ramages, the Rollins,
Miss Pearl. Lois Ballenger (who is now
running the Inn), the Walkers, Helen Mac,
the Hagues, ancl Jane Cunningham. S.B.
is more beautiful than ever, without even
mentioning the new dorm. It fits into its
locale very nicely, and is too handsome for
all get out. The Book Shop has had a
beauty treatment, and down under the hill
below the maids dorm is a tiny new brick
building housing S.B.'s new dial system.
Those of you who get back for Commence-
ment let me hear from you. Are you ready
for a new secretary?

Address changes: Margaret Biiru'ell
Graves, 35 Cardinal Road. Roanoke, Va.
lane Lee Best, 102 Vance. Fremont, N. C.
Martha Robertson Harless, Leland Road,
Westford, Mass.

1926

Secretary: Ruth Abell (Mrs. Burnett
Bear), Pleasant Valley. Pa.
Fund Agent: Helen Mutschler (Mrs.
Markel Becker), Winter Haven, Fla.

Due to an unhappy combination of illness
in my family, the fleetness of time, and my
own procrastination, the notes for '26 are
slim this month.

Kitty Blount Anderson postcards: "Fred
and I are oflf for 6 weeks in British West
Indies and I am afraid your unanswered
card will spoil all the fun and sleep I hope
to have. I wish I had lots of fascinating
doings to report which would make your
column sparkle. But while I lox e all I
am doing, it is just the same thing that all
our busy community-minded class is doing.
I am so proud to be an Alumnae Trustee on
the S. B. Board of Overseers and do thank
you all for the privilege you have given
me to serve Sweet Briar. "

And from Nell Alkim Hagemeyer: "I
always turn to the class Personals the first
thing and read with interest about the

girls I know! My days are so full, and
still it seems that I haven't much to write.
We have two daughters, sixteen and eleven,
who are characteristically their ages and
they keep us young — and busy — keeping
up with them. Outside of home duties
I am active in the Church and Social Serv-
ice work in the community. I have seen
my former room-mate Christine Thomas
Nuzum (ex '26) fairly often — she lives in
Lexington and comes over to our Cincinnati
Airport to see her son oflf to Harvard. We
get in visits going and coming."

I was much pleased to learn that Ellen
Newell Bryan is a member of the National
Board of Girl .Scouts. Her picture is among
the slides taken at the dedication of the
Juliette Low home in Atlanta.

1927

President: Madeline Brown (Mrs. McFar-
land Wood), Walnut Hill Farm, Hopkins-
ville. Kentucky.

Secretary: JLILIA REYNOLDS (Mrs. Robert
H. Dreisbach) 908 Kinniard Avenue, Fort
Wayne, Indiana.

Fund As.enl: Elizabeth Mathews (Mrs.
Harry A. Wallace, Jr.), 327 Professional
Bldg., Charleston, West Virginia.

Spring has come to Indiana and it is so
lovely here I knew it must be beautiful on
campus. I hope many of you will get back
to campus for reunion and a vacation from
every day aftairs.

Blessings on Libbo Mathews Wallace,
who sent a few news items on the back of
each Fund Agent's communication ! With-
out her this column would be mighty short.

Libbo's daughter. Dolly Wallace, is en-
gaged to Dr. John McMaster Hartman. also
of Charleston. West Virginia. The wed-
din.i.: will take place in September after
which the bride and groom will be at home
on Northridge Road, Columbus, Ohio,
where Dr. John is currently in residency
at Ohio State L^niversity Hospital. Dolly
is a beautiful and talented girl and we all
send our very best wishes for a long and
happy married life.

Margaret Williams Bayne's daughter,
Margaret Bayne of Norfolk, Va., is pictured
on page 58 of The Bride's Magazine, Spring
1957. under Brides of Today, '^'oung Mar-
garet also attended Sweet Briar and is now
Mrs. E. Bradford Tazewell, Jr.

Emily Joms Hodge is moving back to
Wilmington after three years in Cleveland.

Mai7 Marshall Franklin's daughter is at
Sweet Briar College now.

Bob and I drove down to Charlottesville,
Va., to spend a long Easter weekend with
our daughter and son-in-law. Cieorgia and
Jack Ke.gley and to renew acquaintance with
our granddaughter. Julia Reynolds Kegley.
Needless to say we thoroughly enjoyed that
visit.

Jerry Lou. our younger daughter, will re-
ceive her Master's Degree from Tulane on
June 3rd. She has taken a position for
next year at Beirut (^)llege for Women,
Beirut, Lebanon, where she will teach art.
Naturallv I'm already making plans for
Bob and me to fly over to Beirut next sum-
mer to visit Jerry.

Much as I hate to let the class down —
this is all the news I have for you. Bob's
father. Col. Clyde Dreisbach. was taken to
the hospital the day after we came back
from Virginia and passed away last Thurs-

JUNE 1957

day. All the time I might have used writ-
ing for news items I spent at the hospital
and with Mother Dreisbach. I'm sending
an S.O.S. to Dan Boone and if she has any
more news perhaps she can add it to this.

I'm sorry not to see you at reunion. I'll
be in New Orleans. Bob's mother is flying
down there with us this weekend. 'We'll
stay in New Orleans until Jerry finishes
her Orals on Monday, then Tuesday we'll
fly to Me.xico City for ten days and back to
New Orleans for Commencement.

It's been fun being secretary. B:st c:f
luck and many news items to the new one.

1928

Secret jry: Bettv Moore (Mrs. Arthur Y.

Schilling), 1011 Childs Ave., Drexel Hill,

Pa.

Fund Agent: Marion Jayne (Mrs. Carlos

Berguido), 13 '5 Rose Lane, Haverford, Pa.

Greetings to you all. I am going to start
off with a complaint. You let us down —
only three contributions to the fund last
month, which puts us way below our score
same time last year. You are forgiven only
if you have been so busy selling Holland
bulbs that you forgot to write.

Marion ]~i)>!e Berguido became a grand-
mother April 24 — a son to second daughter
Joan. June has been elected president of
iSweet Briar Student Government next year.
Muggsie Nelms Locke writes that her Nan,
'53, will be married July 20. Her Susan
has been elected president of the junior
class at Sophie Newcomb. Winifred West
Morris has moved to South Carolina. Rip
Villi Winkle Morlidge saw Betty White-
house Hagin at a luncheon at Ann Brent
■Winn's.

A letter from Betty Prescoti Balch says
that her cousin, Marian Sumner Beadle of
Honolulu, was with her at Christmas time
with her daughter Kate, who has been at-
tending school en the West Coast. Marian's
other daughter, Judy, expects to come to the
mainland to college when she finishes high
school in Honolulu in June. Squeak H.irned
Ross and husband had cocktails with the
Balches when they were in I'tica in March.
Squeak's daughter and Lib Crjne Hall's
daughter were both married on December
29- Betty's children are all away from
home: Cynthia, '52, is married, Jim is in
Germany. Barbara is a senior at Mt. Hol-
yoke, and Dick, Jr., is a junior at Hamil-
ton College.

I hope that you all have a wonderful
summer and will send lots of news for the
fall issue cf the m-rgazine. Please send
your check to the fund. June '58 will be
our.,30th reunion and it would be nice if
'28 contributed \00'~'r to celebrate the great
occasion.

1931

Secretary: Elizabeth S. Clark, 227 Boston
Ave., Lynchburg, Va.

Pund Agent: Perrons Whittaker (Mrs.
Robert Scott), 325 Whitman Ave., Ha-
worth, N. J.

Another Tune, and another Commence-
ment and we are fast on our way to our
fiftieth milestone. Gruesome!

I had a most pleasant and unexpected
invitation in March. Natalie Roberts Foster
and husband, Walter, invited me to dinner
to celebrate Nat's birthday. We dined at
The Columns and afterward attended the

Ballc Russc. The Fosters came by my house
for refreshments before hand and arrived in
their black Thunderbird. It caused quite
a stir in my quiet neighborhood where a
Ford station wagon is a sensation if it is
newer than 1950 We had a great time.
Nat and Walter had been to California
soon after Christmas. They took a visiting
cousin home, not in the Thunderbird. They
saw Naomi Doty Stead in Tucson.

Nancy Worthington spent her winter va-
cation in Florida this year. Seems to have
had a wonderful time visiting friends and
enjoying the sun.

As usual I have seen nothing of my class-
mates' children who are at Sweet Briar.
I know I am missing a wonderful opportu-
nity, but when I try they are too busy, and
not having any eligible sons, I have no
drawing card. I saw Jane Shipman, Martha
McBroom Shipman's handsome daugh-
ter, on the street. She says she is going to
Europe this summer and she was all ex-
cited. I saw in the paper that Tabb Moore,
■Virginia T.ihb Moore's cute young thing,
will be at St. Andrew's next year, and Char-
lotte Kent Pinkney's blonde, beautiful and
brilliant Jane made PBK. Must say our
children are doing us proud. Brains seem
to be going yonder and beauty is not lag-
ging behind.

During Spring vacation the Lynchburg
Alumnae Chapter entertained the local prep-
school Juniors and Seniors at tea in the
Emily Bowen Room of the William Bland
Dew Dormitory. We wanted to get our
Lynchburg girls interested in Sweet Briar.
We had about twenty-five guests and, we
thought, a very nice party. The girls en-
joyed seeing the dormitory and other build-
ings and appeared to be favorably impressed.
We hope the idea was a good one, and that
Lynchburg girls will come flocking.

I hope you have noticed the announce-
ment that starting in the Fall e.ich issue of
the Alumnae News will go to ejch alum-
na. My "Public" will be so much broader
that I will need more and varied news to
keep the exes and those who have strayed
from the fold interested and up to date.
Please try to write me what you are doing
and all the news of your children and your
children's children. You will be hearing
from me later, but do let me hear from you
sooner.

1932

President: Marjorie Miller (Mrs. J. F.
Close, 1475 Caledonia Rd., Town of Mt.
Royal, Quebec, Canada.
Secretary: ELIZABETH JOB (Mrs. A. H.
Jopp), 503 Scott Ave., Pikeville, Ky.
Fund Agent: Susan Marshall (Mrs. W.
B. Timberlake), Ridgewood Rd., Staunton,
Va.

Four score and seven years ago. or so it
seems, our Alma Mater brought forth a
class of graduates dedicated to the principle
that we were all educated and perfected
young females. That was in 1932 and now,
in 1957, we're all still educated, cultured,
desirable, beautiful, clever, charming and
accomplished. AREN'T WE?

This is a report that doesn't set out to
prove a thing in the world. It should be
stated at the outset that these findings are
based on the 59 answers received to the 126
questionnaires sent out. In point of fact, the
answers un-prove some things. For ex-

ample, of all the form-sheets mailed to grad-
uates and non-graduates, fewer answers
came from the girls in Texas than from any
other state. That quashed ideas about the
expansiveness of Texans.

Most of us are married and are thorough-
ly domesticated wives and mothers. There's
nothing so profound or odd about that —
its just very, very nice. Children take
first place in our interests, and our 60 sons
and 59 daughters average out so that we
each — even the ones who aren't married —
have two children.

An exquisite modesty is the general
tone of our answers. Offspring are called
"satisfactory" who are really phenomenal.
Husbands are spoken of as "nice" who are
absolute catnip, and accomplishments are
tossed oft' casually by girls who are perfect
demons of efficiency. Our job-range spreads
all over creation, from ceramics to parasit-
ology, from being a guide in a museum to
what was enigmatically listed as "own busi-
ness. " Does she mean that it's none of any-
bodv else's ?

Maybe the statistics are more significant
— for those of you who are holding out for
Significance — for what they don't say than
for what they do. Not one of us is mar-
ried to an actor, a painter, a musician, a
novelist or a poet or a man with a beard.
Brood over that or shrug it oft', as you
please, because we restore the balance by
our own strong inclinations towards the
arts — that is, when we're not golfing,
bowling, swimming, hiking, ski-ing or
playing bridge.

With the passage of time, our collective
looks have gained in allure — in mystery —
in sophistication. Our hair may be, well,
softer, is a good word, but most of us can
still get into our college clothes, and I don't
mean our freshman aprons, either. Five
of you stuck out your tongues and said you
now wear a size smaller, thanks so much !

And now for the awards, for surely this
is an occasion for citations: Most Talented
— Barbara Altinter Purdue, Patricia ALinson
Stedman and Theda Sherman Newlin for
having 15 children between them — five
apiece. Patricia didn't send pictures, but
do look at the one of Barbara in the scrap-
book. She looks adorable — slim, young,
sassy and blissful.

Aiost Starry-eyed — Bee Stone De'Vore,
to whom everything is wonderful, every day
is exciting, and everybody is fascinating. Her
answer-sheet fairly gives oft' sparks — read
it and see if you don't get a charge.

Aiost Footloose — This is a tie between
Mildred Larimer and Caralisa Barry Pol-
lard. No sooner does one try to pin Cara-
lisa down in Thailand than she's pranced
oft' to Lebanon. Mildred leads a life of
international glamour, now in Madrid and
perhaps Buenos Aires next year.

Most Venerable — That award belongs
to the grandmothers, naturally. Alice
Bronghton Keenan and Harriett Thompson
Lathrop have one grandbaby each, .sex un-
specified. Flappy Pancake Mandeville and
Em Green Kennon got theirs by the pain-
less grandchild-birth method, that is to say,
they inherited them. This is a field that's
due to be crowded pretty soon, as Tiny Mar-
shall Timberlake. "Virginia Hall Lindley,
Ann Anthony Hill and Billie Hancel Sturdy
all have one married child each and Anna
Gilbert Davey's daughter is to be married
this month.

Alutiiiide Neivs

■■■*■>■ ■'HSSS!9'9!

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CLASS OF 1932
Front row, L. to R., Helen Pratt GraH, Eleanor Wright Conway. Elizabeth Clary Treadwell.
Emily Maxwell Littlepage, Alice Dabney Parker, Letha Morris Wood, Betty Allen Magruder
Reck, Sue Burnett Davis. Second rowr, Em Green Kennon. Virginia Squibb Flynn. Lib
Douglass Foote, Hazel Stamps Collins. Ruth Kerr Fortune. Marcia L. Patterson, Sally
Shallenberger Brown, Mary Moore Pancake Mandeville. Back row. Marjorie Ward Cross
and Elizabeth Job Jopp. Also present but not pictured: Henrietta Bryan Alphin. Susan
Marshall Timberlake and Thedo Sherman Newlin.

Most Serene — Jane Hayes Dowler, and
at the risk of being shot down in flames
I'm going to give her the Sweetest Husband
Award, too. With three children, here's
what Jane writes of him — "a calm hus-
band who never panics and still thinks of
me as young and pretty."

Musi Aiilhenlic Sense uf Humor — 'Vir-
ginia Finch 'Waller, for sending in that
rare-vintage photograph of herself and Clara
West Manning.

— Must Something or Other — This is a
special category for Sarah Bright Grjcey
Haskell, not because she has four children,
though that's wonderful enough, but be-
cause she's the only one of us who married
a clergyman.

Must Versiitile — Alice D.ibney Parker
who took on the job of toastmistress this
reunion and never took a single tranquilizer.
She wrote the lyrics for our songs. Thanks
to her. l-lappy P.incjke Mandeville and Mar-
jorie Miller Close this has been an A- 1 re-
union.

Surely it's not a sad note to say that we
remember with love Sarah Forsyth and
Nellie Nightingale. Hail to thee, blithe
spirits.

Statistics garnered from Questionnaires:
Housewives — 42.
Jobs:

Doctor of Philosophy — teacher of Latin

Serologist — parasitologist

Secretary of the American Embassy in
Madrid

Manager of a law office

Society editor of a newspaper

Executive secretary of the New Orleans
League of >OC'omen Voters

Two music teachers

Has a Television show — 5 times a week

Statistician

Guide in museum - - W'interthur

Doctor of Medicine and practicing psy-
choanalyst in New '^'ork City

Painter and has a decorating business

U. S. probation clerk

2 secretaries

Own business (wonder just what that
means)

Public Health executive
Alumnae with daughters in college:

Letha Morris 'VC'ood

Kate Oglesby Nixon

Susan ALirshiill Timberlake

Emma Knoulton Little

Dot Smith Berkley

Alice Diihney Parker
Alumnae with daughters entering this fall:

Eleanor Wright Conway

Lib Dotightie Bethea

Sarah Bright Gracey Haskell

Virginia Bell.imy Ruffin

Wish I had been with you.

Sally Ainsworlh Glass.

1933

President: Hetty Wflls {Mrs. Frederick
W. Finn), 81 West Brother Drive, Green-
wich, Conn.

Secretary: Anne Marvin, I'^IS Dairy Road,
Charlottesville, Va,

Fund Agent: Gerry Mallory, 169 East
Clinton Avenue, Tenafly, N, J,

We are all very sorry to hear that Maiy
Buick lost her father March 1. ALiy I take
this opportunity to express our heartfelt
sympathy to Mary and her mother.

Marjorie Ris Hand is area chairman and
has been trying to raise money for the
Development Fund. They have been hav-
ing benefit bridges lately to aid in this
direction. To quote NLirjorie. "My elder
daughter is a sophomore at "VX'heaton, my
younger daughter hopes to attend Skidmore
in the fall and young Bill is in seventh
grade. As wife of one of the three Village
Commissioners 1 have various obligations.
College Club Com. chairmanship. Golf
Tournament Com. work and hospital bene-
fit debutante cotillion all add up."

Virginia Alford Johnston is now a college

graduate, having recently received her B,A,
from the L'niversity of Louisville, That is
wonderful and I congratulate her, Virginia
went to Switzerland last summer and en-
joyed Zermatt very much. It was good to
hear from Helen Martin too. She says her
Sweet Briar bulbs bloomed beautifully this
spring.

Gotten Skinner Shepherd had a wonderful
two months in Europe recently. She went
to Portugal, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Aus-
tria, Germany and France. Hetty W'ells
Finn and her family had a good vacation
in March in Cuba and Delray Beach, Flor-
ida. She sent me a lovely card of Veradero
Beach, Cuba. Connie Murray Walker hoped
to go to Europe in May. Doris Crane
Loveland and her husband went to Europe
last October.

Jean I 'an Home Baber lost her mother
just before Christmas and we all send her
our deepest sympathy. Jean has enjoyed
seeing Gerry Mallory and Nancy and Katie
Coe lately.

I have just received a nice chatty letter
from Jane Martin Person. She writes, "We
continue to wrestle with 'the farm prob-
lem' in our own fashion. The children
certainly flourish in spite of everything, for
which we are so thankful. Bruce was 10
in April, Kathie will soon be S, and Doug-
las, 6, will start school in Sept, Bruce at
10 helps his father in almost every phase
of the farm work and joined 4-H this
year,"

It would be very helpful if, when you
send in your news, you would be kind
enough to sign your whole name, as first
names alone are a bit confusing and lead to
uncertainty,

I hope to hear from all of you for the
fall issue of the News,

1936

Secretary: Margaret Powell (Mrs. Har-
rison P. Doty), 2030 Hill St.. Ann Arbor,
Mich.

Fund Agent: ANNETTE Harley (Mrs. Jo-
seph Chappell), 425 St, Laurence Dr., Sil-
ver Spring, ^Id.

Not as many of you answered my frantic
call for news as I had hoped. I still had a
backlog of cards which arrived too late to
go into the last issue so here is the new
with the old. Corinne Fentress Gray wrote
she had just been visiting in Richmond.
Spent a day with Jackie Moort Hoofnagle.
She also saw Logan Phinizy Johns and Ma-
ria Gray i'alentine Curtis. All of these
ladies also reported on the visit. It sounds
like a lot of fun. Wish one of the Michi-
gander would give some sign of life. Maybe
we could have a Mid-Western party.

Kin Carr Baldwin has a daughter of 14,
a hopeful future Sweet Briarite. She has
a son, 16, at St, Christopher's School and
her daughter may go to St, Catherine's, She
has heard from Alary Kate Croti- Sinclair of
Houston, Texas, and Jean Bird Antonius of
Madison, Wis,, also Betsy High Gregg,
She says Mary Knauff Ghesquiere is sta-
tioned in Norfolk. Annette Harley Chap-
pell's daughter was elected to the National
Honor Society and is also a finalist in the
National Merit Scholarship program. Her
husband is in Foreign Service now but has
not yet been assigned a post. Connie 11 ".»-
ner McElhinney sent me an enthusiastic
card describing her hunting activities with
daughters Elliot, 16, and Susan, 10, They

June 1957

are looking for a prep school for Paul, 14.
I recommend Berkshire; write me for de-
tails. Connie. Carrie M.irshjll Gilchrist
and family (Peter III. 17. and Marshall, 14)
had an ei;;ht week plane trip to Europe last
sumjiier; they visited 13 countries. They
came home via Spain. Portugal and Ber-
muda. It sounds glamorous and glorious.
Nancy Busucll Holderness and Shirley
Hiiyuoud Alexander have sons at ^X'ood-
berrv Forest with Carrie Marshall's Peter,
so she sees them fairly often. Willietta
Sciilield Thompson is president of the White
Plains Council of PTA's and a director of
the ^X'hite Plains VComan's Club. She is
also engaged in taxiing three small boys
to school. Cub Scouts, etc. Wonder what
she docs in her spare time? Chic Gregory
says I got her in the middle of exams with
140 papers to correct. She still enjoys her
teaching and is planning to build a house on
the University campus. She will have 3
bedrooms, 2 baths, and all the other usual
plus full basement. Dodie Biirrill Walker
saw Kathleen Donohiie McCormack last
summer after nineteen years. The Mc-
Cormacks. six strong, descended on San
Francisco for the Kiwanis Conventicn. She
says they talked so much and so hard try-
ing to catch up that she doesn't remember
whether they ate anything for lunch. She
has a part-time job with the Community
Welfare Council. Alice Aiidn'us Fackert
has 2 boys, one 17 and one 8. The older
one is a mile runner at his school and plan-
ning to be an icthyologist. Heavens ! They
have lived in St. Louis since 1938.

Lillian Cabell Gay says she and Jim are
taking French for Travelers (sounds in-
triguing) at Lehigh Uni\ersity in prepara-
tion for the First International Congress of
Neurological Surgeons to be held in Brus-
sels next July. They will also visit friends
in Holland. Luxembourg and England. They
also hope to see Odile Cozette who is now
Soeur Bathilde. A card from Parker Good-
win Breen says they are busy with their
'"Vida, " a 32 foot yawl which they keep at
Oyster Bay. No wonder I missed seeing
her at Larchmont. Soeur Bathilde writes
that she is well and happy. She is going
back to the /nain convent at Montpelier
for two months, then off to Sweden where
there is a convent in Lund. She says she
has some interesting contacts with Protest-
ant clergymen, theologians, etc. Alice
Btiiet Hopkins wrote that she took her
Christie and Alice to New York. They
saw Aline Slump Fisher and her Peggy;
both were flourishing. Betty Cocke 'W'in-
free solved a mystery for me. One of her
children mailed the card back to me before
she had had a chance to compose a suitable
reply on it. How well I know how that
happens. Their nineteen year old son is in
Army Intelligence, and their seventeen year
old daughter is at my old prep school, Stuart
Hall; the twelve year old is home with her
parents. Nancy Dicks Blanton says she has
3 daughters, two in high school and one in
second grade. The oldest hopes to go to
Sweet Briar next year. They are horse
enthusiasts and follow all the horse shows
in their section. The family is planning a
six week western trip this summer. Peg
Camttbtll L'sher said she didn't have much
news but couldn't resist answering me.
What a wonderful girl ! Mary 'Virginia
Camp Smith says they entertained 100 la-
dies for coffee and the same night were at

home to -17") people. ^X'hat stamina. No
special occasion, they just felt like party-
ing. Their home was open for the House
and Garden Tour and they had nearly 500
people for that. Emily Buicen MuUer wrote
she had just returned from 3 '.'2 weeks in
Florida. La Donahue McCormack says her
two <i|der boys got their Eagle Scout
■iwards in December. She and Jim sans
ihildrcn are going to another International
Kiwanis Convention in June, this time in
■Valley Forge. Fuzzy Taylor Brawley, so I'm
told, is working as a landscape designer in
Pinehurst, N. C.

Pinkie says their newest news is that
their second son has been accepted at Epis-
copal High School where his older brother
is now finishing his second year. Ginny
/\////) Anstice wrote that Phoebe Pier son
Dunn and seventeen year old Susie spent a
day with her in April. Phoebe on business
for Kodak and Susie looking at V('ells. Gin-
nie has a daughter. 16. at Dana Hall and a
son, 11, in fifth grade. Alma Martin Rot-
nem wrote enthusiastically of her five years
on the Board of Overseers and w-hat a privi-
lege it has been to be a part of the growth
of Sweet Briar. Martha Williams Tim said
her two older children and their father were
in Winchester for the Apple Blossom Fes-
tival. Ann, the youngest, was ill so she
and Martha stayed home. Anne Thomson
Smith and her husband w^ent to Panama.
Mexico, Cuba and Jamaica this winter.
Their 21 year old son, William, is in the
Navy, Michael is 13 and Laura nearly 6.
She sees Liz Tomlin Jewell and Kay Person
Barrett. The latter moved a circa 1820
house nail by nail and board by board from
Connecticut to Cincinnati. Stumpy visited
Nancy Parsons Jones during spring vaca-
tion. She reports that Nancy has 2 charm-
ing daughters and is in every "good" or-
ganization known to man. They are all go-
ing to Honolulu for 6 weeks, the Jones,
that is. Ginny Rulty Anstice gave a lunch-
eon for Stumpy while she was in Rochester.
She also lunched with June Stein who has a
son the age of Stumpy's daughter. Fran
Baker Owen sent me a nice card full of all
the doin.gs that involve four children from
4 to 14. Had a nice letter from Betty
Fesser MacLeay. She reports two weddings
and a grandchild all within a year. Her
daughter was married last June and has a
baby son born Feb. 28, 1957, On March 17
her son Donald was married, having re-
ceived his commission as a second lieuten-
ant, USMC, after .graduation from VMI.
They have a son. 18, who is at boarding
school. Now they are about to re-do the
"Dower House" for the old homes tours.
All the breakable antiques were locked up
during the children's growing up time. She
writes us one and all to come see her but
not at tour time or we won't get in free.
Ruth Gilliam 'Viar sent me a lovely long
letter; she and her children had a spree in
New '\'ork this winter. She said going to
New York with a teenager could be a
grueling experience. I can well believe it!
Her Neal is a freshman at VPI and doing
very well. Susan graduates from high
school this June. Douglas is three and the
family pet. She sees Smithy quite often.
She says Lib Morion Forsyth's daughter is
a freshman at S. B. this year.

This is about all for now. I am spend-
ing my mornings on one side of the desk
and my afternoons on the other. In two

weeks I have to take and give exams. Hope
all of you have a good summer.

1937

Secretary : DOROTHY Prout (Mrs. Robert
W. Gorsuch), Kings Highway, Chapel Hill,
Atlantic Highlands, N. J.
Fund Agent: Rosalie Hall (Mrs. Rosalie
Hall Cramer), 75 Roxbury Rd., Garden
City, Long Island, N. Y.

My heartfelt thanks to so many of you
who have returned the questionnaires for
our scrapbook. We've had such a glorious
spring it has been difficult to catch up with
the inside work, but Jackie has given me
a deadline to meet, so here goes. This let-
ter will be news from the questionnaires,
each gal listed alphabetically by her maiden
name.

Henrietta Arthur Skinner has four chil-
dren, ranging from 19 years to 2 years old
and needless to say, her activities center
around her family and P.T.A. (who's
don't?). Your replies indicate that most
of us are submerged in family activities,
P.T.A., gardening, \olunteer work, teach-
ing, a few working for degrees, and many
of us have the inevitable grey hairs which
seem to go with it all. By the way, Henri-
etta lives in Evanston, 111., her oldest is a
sophomore at Northwestern, and her young-
est — a girl — S.B. 1975?

Brad (Margaret Bradley Forsyth) finally
came throuh — bless her. I remember what
a chore letter writing was for her. She
visited S. B. on May Day and has returned
home with glowing reports about the new
dorm. She has seen Peggy Merrit recently
and Peggy stopped by S. B. to see about
entering her eldest daughter. Brad won't be
able to spend a night at reunion but hopes
to be with us for one day. She has two
children, 14 and 8 years old, who undoubt-
edly are a great help with the cows on her
farm.

Nina Cauthorn Jarvis hopes to be with us
from Bedford, 'Va., for a short while during
reunion. The dates conflict with school
finals for some of her three children. Mag-
gie Cornuell Schmidt is busy getting ready
for her trip to Europe with her daughter.
She made a suggestion which I'll pass along
to you and wish you would let me know
your reaction. For our 25 th Reunion
gift from the class, if 25 people would give
$10 a year (in addition to their fund con-
tribution), we could give the college $1250.
Should we appoint a special fund agent
for our 25th?

The news of Becky Douglas Mapp and
Molly Gruher Stoddart was written up in
the March issue. Becky will be on campus
for reunion but Molly will be buried in
books at the V. of Pa. for her ^^A.

Sid Gort Herpers is still in Seattle, Wash.,
and can't make a trip East right now. Her
older son, Jeff, had heart surgery several
years ago and has enjoyed 100%^ recovery.
He has been winning all kinds of athletic
trophies since. Sid has seen Margaret
Gloier Paddock in Seattle and reports her
three children are lovely. Fran Johnson
Finley was back on campus four years ago
and we'll catch up on all of her news when
we see her in June,

Frances Kemp Pettyjohn, although living
in Lynchburg, is snowed under with five
ranging in age from 16 to 7. She is going
to try to be with us. It was so nice to hear

Ahimihte News

from Margaret Kirk Groome who invites
any one of us who is so fortunate as to get
to Mexico City to look her up. The ad-
dress is Sierra Madre 170 — Lomas — Mexico,
D.F. She has three children. David. 16. is
at Vir.yinia Hpiscopal, John. IS. is fioin.e
to ^X'oodberr>' Forest. Her youngest is S.B.
material — 12 years old.

After the March issue went to press I
had a lovely long letter from Sally Kirk-
palrick 1-earing. who now lives in Chevy
Chase, Md. Sally's oldest is finishing her
freshman year at S.B. Doesn't this make
her the first alumnae daughter from our
class.'' A more recent note from Sally
states she can't make reunion, as much as
she wants to. There are four other chil-
dren at home, the youngest being only six
months old. She and her husband did man-
age to enjoy island-hopping in the Ba-
hamas last winter though.

Polly Limbelh Blackwell is going to le.ive
her brood of three prospective Briarites —
15, 12, 9 years old — long enough to join
us in June. Sounds like a very talented
family, the oldest is an accomplished high
school debater, and pretty; the middle one
an artist; the youngest a charmer.

Anne L.iuman Bussey's husband is a
Lt. Col., I'. S. Army, and is away on a
world tour at the moment. Anne had hoped
to be with us but has no one to leave with
her son. age 7',2. and her daughter, age 9.
Her family are very happy living in Ar-
lington. 'Va. (4289 North 38th St.). Would
be nice if we could stop to see her on our
way home from Virginia.

Bubs Muini Green keeps very busy with

her four daughters and transcribing and
teaching Braille. Thanks Bubs for ans-
wering — we haven't had any news of
you for a long time. Bubs was on campus
in April — too bad it couldn't have been
June.

Isabel Ohinlt.iii Haynes sent a lovely pic-
ture of her whole family — her elder son.
12, looks taller than his mom. Her other
son is 10. Lolly Redjern Ferguson wrote
that she took movies of us at our tenth re-
union and is going to bring them along —
they should be fun. She said Jane CoU/in
Corwin is in Germany and won't be back
until August, so she definitely won't be
with us. Lolly, Fran Johnson Finley, and
Becky Doug,Lis Mapp are driving over to
S.B. together for reunion.

Ruth Riindle Charters may come from
McLean, 'Va., for reunion. She has three
sons and keeps busy with housewife-moth-
er activities. Dottie Stewart has just
changed jobs with the Sun Oil Co.. and is
now Executive Secretary to the Vice-Presi-
dent. She and a friend splurged and vaca-
tioned in Europe last August. They had
such a good time that Dottie is startin.g to
put money into a bank marked "Europe"
and go off again.

Another reply from a mother of 5 —
Marge Thomjs Brookhart. Her oldest is
16. and the youngest is 3, so you all know
what she is doing. She said she had lost
track of Peggy Minder. Anyone know her
address? Turny — Mary Turnbiill Bar-
held, is still in Jacksonville — and do I
envy her each Winter! Her husband. Bill,
had a fall several years ago with a resulting

CLASS OF 1937
From row, L. to R.. Natalie Hopkins Griggs, Anna Lawrence Redlern Ferguson, Becky
Douglass Mapp, Dol Price Roberts, Dot Proul Gorsuch. Second row, Marie Wall-er
Gregory, Ellen Lee Snodgrass Park. May 'Weston Thompson. Second row. Marie Walker
Bates, Harrielle Dyer Sorenson, Barbara Jarvis, Pack row, Helen Williamson Dumonl.
Polly Lambeth Blackwell. Elinor Ward Francis. Peggy Minder Davis Lillian Lambert
Pennington. Frances Johnson Finley.

bad hip and eventually will have to under-
go the "Arthur Godfrey " operation. Her
son. 12. and daughter, H, keep her pretty
busy. She sees Jackie Sirickl.ind Denelle,
(ane Milchett Robeson, and Ag Willi.ims
Ellis. Bluie Axneir Merrill "blew" in to
see her recently and Turny said she hasn't
changed a bit.

■Wes W\nd Francis wrote a newsy card
but it arrived too late for the March issue.
■W'es is president of the S.B.C. Alumnae
Cluti of Philadelphia and is going to be on
hand for reunion. She has kept up with
her tennis, is active in the Junior Service
League, does creative writing, taught Eng-
lish in '54-'55, and has a son. age II, who
may go to Harvard. These days it's wise
to send an application for the college of
your choice when you fill out the birth cer-
tificate.

May Weston Thompson is another mama
of five, ranging from 12 to 3- But she is
going to manage to be with us for reunion —
Fm looking forward so to seeing all of you.
Betty W'/lh.iins Allison is coming up from
Greenville. S. C. and leaving her four to
join us too.

The only questionnaire returned to me
because of bad address is for Margaret San-
didge — Mrs. W. L. Mason, 200 Sleepy
Hollow Rd., Falls Church, Va. Does any-
one know her whereabouts — if so, let the
college know.

Fve talked my husband into baby sitting
with my two so I can catch up with
everyone's news at reunion. We have quite
a strawberry patch so I kno%v they won't get
into any mischief while Fm away — the
berries will be ripe. See you in June.

1940

Prt/siJeiil: Helen Schmid (Mrs. William

H. Hardy), 2740 Lake Drive, S. E.. Grand

Rapids 6. Michigan.

Secretary: Muriel Barrovcs (Mrs. James

F. Neall), 29 Foxridge Rd., West Hartford

7, Conn.

Fund A^ent: Hortense Powell (Mrs.

Prentice Cooper), Selbyville, Tenn.

Many were written — but few answered —
in fact, only one — Connie Clejr\ Fester,
bless her. So a double hix on all of you
who forgot to answer my card requestin.g
news — and please remember that there
can't be a '40 column without some help
from each and every one of you I

Connie said she is worrvin,g about the
education of a college student and a first
grader, for her stepdaughter, Karen, is a
senior in high school and Debbie is 4V2-
Her husband, Lloyd, after 20 years in the
oil business, is now one of two partners in
a 3V'i year old mechanical contracting firm,
and Connie works part time in the office.
She said the family spends September at
their house in I'nderwood, N. '\'.. and
would love to see friends. Connie keeps
very busy with PTA. Garden Club, the Epis-
copal Church and sewing for herself and
the girls.

Every month there are several changes
of address — how the class does move
around. The really prize address is too
good not to share. To write NancT Hus-
hm. Elliott, address her at "The Ark, Jack
Straw's Lane, Hcadington, Oxford, Eng-
land. " Jane B.iier Grant left Brunswick,
Me., for Warwick, R.L. and Ruth Goodwin,
who was lost from Stuart Ave.. Richmond,

June 1957

Va.. was re-discovered on Glebe Road,
Richmond. Elizabeth Ftlts Chatham left
Richmond for Galax, Va., and Janet Mar-
tin Knall has been found in East Chicago,
III. And Joan Thonet of Jamaica Estates,
N. Y., has suddenly become Mrs. C. G.
Hall. 1831 Tucker Ave., Falls Church. Va.
More details on THIS change of address,
please. A wonderful summer to you all,
and if in your wanderings you see some
SBC-ers, let me know so I can pass on the
news to the class in the fall Alumnae
News.

1941

President: Joan Devore (Mrs. John E.
Roth, Jr.), 2719 Hampshire Ave., Cincin-
nati, Ohio.

Fund Agent: Evelyn Cantey (Mrs. An-
drew B. Marion), 11 Trails End, Greenville,
S. C.

Secretary: Margaret Stuart Wilson
(Mrs. Kenneth H. Dickey), 1902 Ash St.,
Texarkana, Ark.

It is certainly hard to believe that it has
been a year since we had such a wonderful
time at Reunion, and I know that all of you
join me in congratulations and best wishes
to the Class of 1957, as well as to the re-
unioning classes.

My letters and news from you all have
been few and far between, so please send
me a post card from your vacations, so that
in the fall Nevc's I can have some nice, in-
teresting, up-to-date information. Remem-
ber, the fall issue goes to everyone — gradu-
ates, non-graduates, fund-contributors or not
- — so please write me. Your classmates —
all of us — enjoy hearing about you. Some-
how, other peoples Junior League work.
Scout troops, measles, etc., are much more
interesting to us than our own, besides mak-
ing us feel closer to one another.

Last time I wrote class notes. I was flat
on my back (and had been for two weeks)
with a flu virus settled in my sinuses,
really more painful than two Caesarean
Sections. Anyhow, it must have affected
my brain, for I neglerted to include two
delightful letters. One was to Evie Cantey
Marion, our Fund Agent, from her form-
er roommate Houston Jrippe Bateson,
which was so like Houston, and full of en-
thusiasm and news about people in classes
near ours, that I will quote instead of
paraphrasing: "I must say I almost fainted
when I saw your note at the bottom of
the Sweet Briar letter. I've wondered what
on earth e\er became of you. The last
news I had was the announcement of your
wedding, and I know that was years ago.
I don't know of anyone that has been in your
part of the country, so the grapevine has
not been too good. I've been living in New
York City for two years and love it. I'm
not even sure that I don't like it better than
Texas, and coming from a Texan, that is
alarming. Phil is with Bache & Co., and
goes to Texas every three or four months
for a couple of weeks, so I still see Mother
and all the Dallasites. It was so funny to
hear from you at this time, as the SBC group
here had just discovered I was a resident.
Consequently for the past couple of weeks,
I've been busily addressing envelopes for
the Sweet Briar benefit of 'Happy Hunting'.
We are just about over the hump, thank
heavens. Cynthia Bottsford is head of the
group. I see Margaret Kelly Gardner from
Waco a lot. She ended up at the L'niversity

of Texas with me, and now lives in the Vil-
lage. She has been working in the fashion
world' until this fall, so we regularly had
a 30 minute lunch in some hamburger joint.
Everyone I ha\e ever known has been
through the city, so I'm kept busy with visit-
ing firemen — plus all of Phil's family who
live here. At the moment, we are planning
a trip to Jamaica for the holidays, if we
can e\er get a reservation on a plane!
They've been booked solid for a month, so
we are wait-listed. I would love to see
some warm weather and sun. Dorothy hong
Cousins has moved to Dallas from Houston.
On my last visit, she said Barbara McNeal
and Cammille Guyton had written her they
were going to Europe next June and wanted
her to join them. She'd love to go, but
can't figure out what to do with Bob and the
two boys ! Ouija Adams Bush has also
moved to Dallas and is head of the Alumnae
group."

Our noble Fund Agent also had a note
from Betsy Tower Bennett saying she had
just discovered that Midge Fleming Gray
('40g, and Beth's May Day page) had been
living just down the street for two years,
and neither knew the other was there!

Last issue I also neglected to pass on the
most pitiful news from Pat Sorenson Ack-
ard. from her Christmas card. She'd been to
a wonderful party at Eunie Foss Sneed's
house and said they were fine, also Jean
and Gil Blount who are house hunting.
Now for the dreary part: "All the Ackards
are fine, but going thru a terrific battle.
From one tiny kitty, all four children loaded
with ringworm. After two months, bodies
are better, but last week had X-ray epilation
on their scalps, so will have four little
baldies for at least three more months.
Yipe, what a job, and what a mess. " Just
think of the problems of four bald heads
during a Denver winter!

Those of you who were at Reunion re-
member Lucy (Legs) Lloyd's plans for a
trip to Europe last fall, and here is her
description. "As I think back about that
three months' trip to Europe it seems hard
to believe. We had a little car two months
and drove any and every place we wanted
to. There were some other tourists, but no
crowds, and people couldn't have been nicer.
I'm all for traveling in the off-season — the
hotel people, guides, and everyone take a
much more personal interest in travelers
and everything is of course less expensive.
The beautiful linens in Italy are just be-
yond all description. We watched young
girls learning to be seamstresses and carry
on the lovely embroidery that has been done
for generations. Polly Parke, the girl who
instigated the whole trip, is just about to
be married and we had a fine time helping
her buy all the things for her trousseau.
Then Switzerland. Oh, those beautiful
Alps ! 'We took a guide one day and tramped
nine miles over the mountains and a gla-
cier, sometimes in snow above our knees.
You never saw four such bedraggled people
in your life, at the end of that day, but
what views and sights we saw. Of course,
I had to ask to please see the barns where
the Swiss cows were, halfway up a moun-
tain — two enormous Brown Swiss cows
in a tiny stable, completely dark, barely
room to stand up straight, and a dear old
Swiss woman milking by hand. I made a
study of the cows as we drove along. In
Italy, the cows graze in the orchards.

watched by women or old men so that they
don't eat any trees. The woman stand un-
der the trees, watching the cows and knit-
ting — always 2-5 cows together with a
watcher. I'll never get over how miniature
everything looks abroad compared to rolling
fields and real prairies in this country. They
don't waste a square inch of land, and they
work so carefully and painstakingly. We
saw few tractors. It doesn't seem possible
that so much can be produced all by hand.
This is very bad; when I get started every-
one has to put cotton wool in his ears be-
cause I can go on for hours. If I could
learn to write English and punctuate, I bet
I'd write a book! "

I had a wonderful note from Mary Scully
OIney, whose husband has been transferred
to the Western Division of Birds Eye, and
they are settled in Walla 'VX'alla, Washing-
ton. She says, "It's a very nice town with
a good climate, in the southeastern corner
of the state. I've been so provincial — be-
tween New York and Virginia all my life —
that it's quite exciting to move out here.
The only drawback is the distance from both
our families. Am sure pleased to have
made it back to Reunion last year because I
doubt if I could make it from here. Had
a little visit at home while our furniture was
enroute, and had a chance to see Decca
Gilmer Frackleton. Will miss seeing her in
the Adirondacks. Can't see from the Di-
rectory that anyone from SBC is very close."
ScTiUy's address is 1952 Howard.

Please keep me posted on your news, and
a happy vacation to each of you.

1942

President: Catherine Coleman, Hannah
More Academy, Reistertown,, Maryland.
Secretary: Helen Sanford, 2731 Steel
Street, Houston, Texas.
Fund Agent: Mary Ruth Pierson (Mrs.
H. T. Fischer, Jr.), Bay Crest, Huntington,
N. Y.

The fifteen members of the Class of 1942
who managed to be at Sweet Briar in June
for our 15th Reunion agreed unanimously
that we were the most attracti\e, the most
talented and the most genuinely worthwhile
folks around. This is a modest claim in-
deed, and one which you \\'ould surely have
endorsed.

We honored the other assembled alumnae
by composing and singing to them at the
Alumnae Banquet a special little ditty set to
the tune of "It's '42." Credit for the major
creative effort on this ditty belongs to Ruth
Hensley Camblos (who had the pencil) and
Sudie Clark Hanger (who had lots of ideas
and tried unsuccessfully to sell us on one
line that went "So, you old bags . . . We're
not such hags"). The final version . . .
not entirely understandable when we sang
it . . . was as follows:
It's '42 . . . it's '42 . . .
Can't you tell by looking at us that it's true?
Our children number two-six-two,

(Note: This was arrived at by wild guess,

and because it rhymed)
But you can see that we're not through.

(Note: We had visual evidence of this).
While home life occupies us most.
There are other fields that we can boast.
We've got a writer
And even brighter

(Notice that we were again faced with

the need to rhyme something)

Aluniiiiie News

CLASS OF 1942
Front row, L. to R., Dorothy Malone Yates, Ruth Hensley Camblos, Eugenia Burnett Affel.
Ann Morrison Reams, Sudie Clark Hanger, Douglas Woods Sprunt, Deborah Wood Davis.
Lucy Call Dabney. Back row, Doris Ogden Mount, Betty Hanger Jones. Mary Alice Bennett
Dorrance. Nancy Davis Reynolds. Grace Bugg Muller-Thym. Helen Sanford. Also present
but not pictured: Laura Graves Howell and Betsy Gilmer Tremain.

A head mistress

And a lawyer

And two Docs."

Oh SBC . . . we're proud of thee . . .

(VC'e're draining the creative spirit dry

now )
. . . Proud to be the Class of '-42!

This song is reproduced in its entirety as
a tribute to its authors . . . and to encourage
YOU to attend Reunion next time.

In all truth, we had a wonderful time for
the brief three days of Reunion. Sudie
Cl.irk Hanger and her husband Bill, and
Dottie ALiloi/e Yates and her husband Char-
jic. had come all the way from Atlanta for
the occasion, leaving behind a grand total
of ten children (the Yates four and the
Hangers six). Bill and Charlie were the
best part of Reunion; we must remember
never to have another one without them.

Notice the nonchalant reference above to
Sudie's six children. Her newest, named
Walter Clark Hanger and called Clark, was
born on January J ith. increasing the Han-
ger youngsters to a current total of four
boys and two girls. Since Reunion ended,
Ann Hiwslein Potterfield, not to be out-
done, has herself produced a sixth child.
Ann and Sudie are the first of our graduates,
and as far as I know, the first of all our
1942 classmates, to acquire six children.
We seem to be a prolific lot. though, and
their record will undoubtedly be challcnycd.

Back to Reunion. (Ann Potterfield.
needless to .say, was not there). Nancy
D.iiK Reynolds and Ruth Htnsley Camblos
had come up from Asheville; and Mary
Alice Beniitll Dorrance anil Betty H-iiiRei
Jones had driven down together from Phila-
delphia. Debbie W'uotl Davis. Douglas
W'Dijilf Sprunt and Lucy CiU Dabney ar-
rived and departed together, leaving much
too quickly . . . Debbie from Shrewsbury.
New Jersey; Douggie from Washington.
D. C; and hxicf from Richmond. Both
Debbie and Douggie were boasting of new
babies. Debbie's fifth child, and first boy.
was born on January- 24th (the same birth-

date as Sudie CLirk Hanger's newest); and
Douggie's second child and first boy on
January 7th. \X'e learned from Debbie and
Douggie too that Sally Jjckiun Mead has a
second daughter, also born in January;
Sally's first little girl is now about 14
months old. As I think we reported last
issue, the Meads live in Charlottesville,
where Sally's husband JErnest is in the Music
Department of the University of 'Virginia.

Grace Bugg Muller-Thym was down from
Maryland for Reunion. Eugic Bnrnell Aflel
was there from Philadelphia. Doris Ogden
Mount (who now has three handsome boys
and an entrancing little girl) was there from
New Jersey. And Laura Grjres Howell
and Ann Aiorriiun Reams, who together had
bravely chairmanned our whole Reunion,
were of course there from Lynchburg. We
reported on Laura in the last Alumnae
News. Reporting briefly on Ann. the
Reamses have four most attracti\e children
(two boys, followed by two girls), and
Ann is distinguishing herself as a member
of the Sweet Briar Alumnae Council, and
has iust been elected president of the Junior
Leaj;ue in Lynchburg.

Kippy Coleman, our retiring class presi-
dent, couldn't be at Reunion because of con-
flicting ceremonies at her own school ( Han-
nah More Academy in Mar)'land), but sent
us a wistful telegram, as did Ann Hjiisleiii
Potterfield.

I flew back to Sweet Briar by way of
Charlottesville, and stopped overnight there
with my onetime suitemate Betsy Gilmer
Tremain, her husband Mike, and their three
enchanting daughters. Lyn (II). Ann (9)
ani-i ludi (6). The Tremains have a lo\ely
home in a magnifice.nt setting in the I'arni-
ington section of Charlottesville; Sunday
morning breakfast on their terrace is worth
a trip from Houston all by itself. Betsy
and Atike and children drove me to Sweet
Briar from Charlottesville, and joined the
Reunion for about two hours, but they were
unable to stay for all the fine fun.

\X'e had our class elections shortly after

the Tremains had left, and were moved to
honor Betsy Gilmer Tremain by unanimous
vote as our new class president, an office
which she will hold until 1962.

We also elected to disengage me from
the job of Class Secretary, replacing me with
Jeanne Sjwyer Faggi ... a position which
she too will be privileged to hold until
1962. J should remind you in passing that
Jeanne was one of the three authors (Rut
Jm<iiioI Tempest and 1 were the other two)
of our illustrious class prophecy, reproduced
in the 1941 Briar Patch. J know you will
all give Jeanne the same unswerving sup-
port which you have given me, and which
you gave Rut Jacquut Tempest as Class
Secretary before me. Excelsior!

The particularly trying job of Class Fund
Agent was delegated, by acclamation, to
Ruth Hensley Camblos and NancT D.i:is
Reynolds, who volunteered (bless their
hearts) to share the duty. They succeed
Rufus Piersoii Fischer, who has done a
really outstanding job for the class of '42
over the past several years.

There were so many personable people
at Reunion, and so many interesting, news-
worthy things were reported, that even a
quick resume is overwhelmingly ditficult.
About all J can do is mention the newest
babies (which I have done above) and leave
the other excitement for Jeanne to report
from the pages of the Reunion scrapbook.
I will say. though, that you have, among
you, the 262 (give or take a couple of
dozen) most handsome children ever photo-
graphed. And had you been at Reunion,
you would also have observed that vou are
members of the most attractive, talented and
really worthwhile class Sweet Briar has
ever yet turned out.

1943

President: Esther Jett (Mrs. Hugh L.
Holland, Jr.), 204 Clay Street, Suffolk. Va.
Secretary: Braxton Preston, 10 '5 Mercer
Street, Princeton, N. J.

Fund Agent: LuCY Kiker (Mrs. VCilliam
C. Jones), Box 449, Franklin, 'Va.

Well all that southern cooking (Virginia
ham, fat back and hot bread dripping with
butter) finally caught up with your secre-
tary so she had to call me in as a substitute
for this issue (Beth Dichmaii Smith). Brae
has been laid low temporarily, in the hospi-
tal having her gall bladder removed. I am
happy to say that she is fine and well on the
way to recovery at this writing, amazing the
doctors with her fortitude, but in no mood
for meetin.g deadlines.

This substitution will come as a particular
shock to Lucy Kiker Jones, because I a.n not
a class member in very good standing . . .
in fact it's just will power that keeps me
on my feet at all. which you with numbers
of sons will readily understand. In re
Brae's operation, it's remarkable what you
can get along without these days. Between
us. she and J keep the Princeton hospital
going strong. I have lived there oft' and on
the past few years, but my big time there
was censored out of the News which was
too bad, because even colored slides were
available. Brae is going home to Norfolk
Saturday. May 18th. for a few weeks con-
valescence, so maybe she can drum up some
big news for the next issue.

One big news item was Pat Robineau's
marriage to John Irvin Beggs McCulloch on
November 15, 19'>6. A note from her said

JuNH 1957

thev had been on the go pretty much since
then, but are now apartment huntin.i; in
New York and I trust they are settled by
now^

Another news flash was the birth of a
daughter, Mary Minot Mulligan, to Diddy
Chiuthiii Mulligan on February 19th.

A letter from Betty-Potter Kiiiiie Hillyer
to Lucy Kiker Jones, apparently written in
October '56, may afford a little news. It
did to me at least. Betty-Potter has a
daughter, Elizabeth, about two now if my
figuring is correct. And she also has a
swimming pool iust off her dining room (La
Jolla, Calif.) "heated to a depraved 82"
which they use a large part of the winter as
well as all summer. She and family came
East last Spring and had a weeks fling at
the Waldorf. She says it was such fun "to
wear shoes and see a play every night."

Frantic letters sent out by me when Brae
tagged me for this job, resulted in a post
card from Harriet Piitleii Phillips saying she
and Ormsby had been on a five day business
trip Jo Arizona, which she says is fascinating
country and another world. My other let-
ters brought no response, but maybe every-
bodv is off to places glamorous, or the
wells of news have really run dry.

My own summary is brief, but exciting
for us. Our oldest son. Robin (12) is go-
ing off to Europe with Bevin's parents for a
short while this summer, and the second.
Grattan (10) will be off to camp again to
see his horse (the one they let him ride).
Bevin and I will hold down the fort here-
abouts with little "chop" (Warren, 20
months) and I may get a chance to sit and
read a book. We would love to see any-
body who is passing through Princeton.
Surely a lot of you have married Princeton
men and are bound to come back for re-
union sometime. We are over near the In-
stitute for Advanced Study where the intel-
lectual atmosphere is very powerful. We
are an oasis, but it is interesting to see peo-
ple with very large brains all around . . .
and using them. It beats Greenwich Vil-
lage any day.

Sorry about the paucity of news, but get
it in and it will be reported.

1945

President: Harriett Wilcox (Mrs. David
Gearhart), 980 Juniper Road, Hollertown,
Pa,

Fund Agent: Julia Mills (Mrs. Lawrence
Jacobson), 4416 Edmunds St.. Washington,
D. C.

Secretary: Anne Dickson (Mrs. G. S. Jor-
dan), Bay Colony, Virginia Beach, Va.

Summer was early at the Beach this year.
We've been going on the beach and in the
ocean since April. We e.xpect a large tour-
ist crowd this year because of the Jamestown
Exposition, the 350th anniversary of the
first settlers. If any of you happen to be
here in June or August, please be sure to
call us. We ha\e rented our house for the
month of July and are taking the family to
Lake Champlain, Essex, N.Y., for a vaca-
tion.

Had a card from Betty Zttlick Reuter. She
and Don were here this time last year, but
Zu says they won't be able to make it this
year. Ann Warren Robinson and Ian were
married last October in New York City.
She writes, "He is English, the assistant
manager of the Cunard Line in Boston. By

fall we expect to be transferred to England
permanently. " Ann says she loves Boston.
She ran into Lib Love Orth one day in a
super market gathering enough food for her
large tribe. Ann says she looked just as
calm as ever.

A nice long letter came from Diddy
Gaylord Thompson. Zu and Don Reuter
spent a night with her in January and they
had a very gay evening. Diddy saw Dean
Bri/gger Wetzig's sister who said that Dean
had a pretty rough time in the big snow
storm out in Colorado in April. Her hus-
band, Paul, was on his way to New York
at the time so she had to battle it alone.
Dean has two boys and two girls. They
live in Colorado Springs where Paul is an
eye surgeon. Diddy and Arthur bought a
hous.e last July. "It's over sixty years old,
but in very good shape and has a lovely
garden which we are learning how to take
care of the hard way. We miss the beau-
tiful view we had from our apartment, but
we can see the water from here if we stand
on our tiptoes in the attic in the winter
tim?."

Sarah Temple Moore shows a change of
address on her letter but didn't say a word
about her new house. She gave me lots of
the Lookout Mountain news, though. Hilda
Ht/de Voight and her husband Bill went
to St. Petersburg, Fla., this winter to visit
Bills parents. She saw a lot of Wyline and
her four boys. "Tom and I also got down
to Highland Park Club with our four boys
for a couple of weeks. Hedy has just re-
turned from Daytona Beach where she took
four of her children, leaving two at home!
(Hedy Edirards Davenport). Betty Avery
Duff has been tripping around, too, to
New York and then to Sarasota. We were
all at Rotary's ladies' night the other night
and sat with Betty Carhangh Mann and hus-
band Jimmy who entertained us highly with
his singing. He really has a marvelous
voice."

Talked to Perk Traiigott Brown on the
phone. She said Harriett W'illcox Gear-
hart was here for two weeks in January with
her two girls. She went over to Hamp-
ton and saw Betty Healy Cutler who was

getting ready to go to Florida for a vaca-
tion with husband Gordon.

Do hope I'll see some of you this sum-
mer, but if not, PLEASE WRITE what you
did, whom you saw, etc., and have a won-
derful time.

1948

President: Virginia Wi'Rzbach (Mrs. Rich-
ard S. Vardy), 4430 South 34th Street,
Arlington, Va.

Secretary: Marv Jo Armstrong (Mrs. Ar-
thur H. Berryman), 1302 Avenue C, Gal-
veston, Texas.

Fund Agent: Elizabeth Beltz (Mrs. Wil-
liam F. Rowe, Jr.), 4829 Kensington Ave-
nue, Richmond, Va.

BIRTHS; "Boots " Johnson McCarthy, a
son, Dec, 25, 1956, Her daughter was
born the same date two years ago, so
Christmas must be an extra important day
around their household. Closey Faulkner
Dickey, a son, Donald Faulkner, Dec. 18,
1956. This was their third boy. Mary
McDuffie Redmond, a son, James McDufiie,
Nov. 14, 1956. Louise Day McWhorter, a
son, Thomas DuVall, April 8, 1957. Louise
was in Galveston recently and I had a much
too brief visit with her. Ann Orr Savage,
a son, Duncan Edwards, March 18, 1957.
She expected a chicken pox baby as she
reverted to her childhood, had it during her
pregnancy, and then gave it to her daugh-
ter Cathy.

Patty Traugott Rixey has moved to a new
home in Norfolk. Diane Stoberl Sessions
has moved to a new home in Birmingham,
only a block from Ann Samford L'pchurch.
"Jo" Neal Coccia is now living in Lake
Forest, III. Beachgrove. Ind., is the new
_abod.e for Mary Virginia Grigsby Mallett.
Sylvia Schively married James Robertshaw
last spring.

Diane King Nelson's little David, though
fat and healthy looking, is allergic to every-
thing, making him a restless baby who
doesn't sleep much. She says he looks just
like his father — blonde, blue-eyed, and
long.. She sees Felicia Jackson Wheless
nearly every day. Felicia stays busy with

CLASS OF 1947
Front row. L. to R.. Nancy Cofer Stacey, Anne Brinson Nelson. SalUe Bailey Hemson. Isabel
Zulick Rhoads. Nan Hart Stone. Becky Knapp Herbert, Carol Blanton McCord. Second row
Jean Old. Eleanor Crumrine Stewart. Anne Jackson Ragland. Suzanne Fitzgerald Van
Horne. Catherine Fitzgerald Booker, Mary Stuart McGuire Gilliam. Judith Burnett Halsey
?, ./■f"''^^ Gardner Curtis. Also present but not pictured: Ann Colston Leonard, Sara Ann
McMullen Lindsey. Peggy Robertson Christian, Meredith Slane Finch and Anne Beth Beard

Eubank.

Ah/ittnae News

the Junior League and her church activities.
Audrey L.ihm.iii Rosselot and her children
joined Bub in Vienna Oct. 17 after a hectic
trip. They have a large, centrally located
apartment which makes an ideal base for
sightseein.i;. They've been living right on
toi--> of the Hungarian refugee situation as
the American Consulate is located in the
same building. For about two months it
was like playing football to get in or out
of the elevators. The American women, she
writes, have several projects going to aid
the refugees — a thrift shop, a kindergarten
to get the children off the cold streets, a
handicraft shop where the adults could raise
a little money and pass the time profitably
while waiting for visas — and a soup kit-
chen, where Audrey was spending two days
a week. She said she had become terribly
weary of the sight of food in large quan-
tities.

A sad bit of news. The Alumnae Office
was advised of the death of Mary Stuart
Funk Farley. Known to us as "Toni," she
was a brunette with us our Freshman Year
and lixed on Faculty Row. When I last
heard from her, she was living in Wellesley
Hills, Mass. She had two children, Elliott
III (Tab) who was 5 in December and
Frederika (Fifi) who was three in October.

This is neither newsy nor witty, but I
need your help. PLEASE send me your
news — babies, engagements, marriages,
jobs, homes and on and on. And do be
sure to send me or the Alumnae Office any
change of address. Hope you have a won-
derful summer.

1949

Presideiil: Preston Hodges (Mrs. Eugene
Dubose Hill. Jr.), 122 Don Allen Rd,.
Louisville 7, Ky.

Sfcretiiry: CAROLINE Casey (Mrs. C. Cole-
man McGehee), 5'i04 Monumental Ave.,
Richmond 26. Va.

Fund Ageiil: Catherine Cox. 682 Pros-
pect A\e.. Hartford. Conn.

No engagements, weddings or babies to
report this time, though I know there must
be some new babies longing to get their
names in print! However, I can give a
first hand report on Libby Truehe.irl and
Hiter Harris' twins, for we saw them in
Feb. on a visit to Roanoke with Marie
MinRioit' and Bill Pierce. They are named
Mar\' Lawrence and Elizabeth Robinson and
arc completely identical and absolutely ador-
able. Libby has two alike of everything,
and the babies were even dressed alike at
the tender .ige of four months. The Harris'
home is absolutely out of this world, and
Libbv looks like a million dollars. We went
to the Roanoke Jr. League Follies with
Mane and Bill and had a nice chat there
with Alice Troiil and Hugh Hagan. Marie,
Bill, Coleman and I are going to 'Va. Beach
together in July with all five children, so
we should have a gay time.

Early in April Ann Eustis paid us an
overnight visit on her wav home from a trip
to Florida with her family. Ann quit her
job in Chicago in an orthoptic clinic last
fall and has been a lady of leisure ever
since, although she plans to resume the same
type of work in the east this fall. 'W'e drove
up to Washington together to visit Judy
Easley Mak for the day. and did we exer
have a real gab feast, not having seen

each other in six years, Ann was planning
to visit Sally LeRU DeMartins in Bingham-
ton, N, Y., before returning to Wellesley
Hills, Mass, She told me Bertie Pew Baker
has returned to the Main Line from ^X'elles-
ley Hills and is now living in St. Davids,
Pa.

Judy and Dayton returned from London
in Nov., 19^6, and hope to stay in Wash-
ington for three or four years. They have
bought a lovely old home in Georgetown to
use as home base between overseas assign-
ments, have done it over in Federal style
and filled it with gorgeous antique furniture
that they brought back from London and
refinished themselves in a most professional
way. Their little girl. Holly, is five this
month (May) and seems very grown up.
In a letter from Judy prior to our visit she
said, "Just blissful over gadgets and how
much easier housekeeping is here than
abroad — even tho' we had "help' there
and only a once-a-week cleaner here. Try
li\ing abroad a while and you really see
how- lucky we are to be in America, "

In April I had a card from Marilyn Hop-
kins Bambrough who wrote: "Our big news
this year is a lovely new home — brick,
ranch type. We moved in March and are
enjoying its spaciousness. Our new address
is 2478 Devon Lane. Birmingham. Michi-
gan — we are only a mile from where I
lived as a child. Since moving we have
been battling chicken pox but the end is
in sight now!"

Pat Brown spent her spring vacation in
Florida, and said she had visited Katie Cox
in Hartford and met her fascinating fiance.
Polly Pliimmer Mackie has left Phila. for
San Antonio, Texas, where her husband is
stationed with the Army Medical Corps,
and Betsy Dershuck Gay has been busy
doing volunteer work for the League of
Women 'Voters in New York City, Kitty
H.irl and Chappy Belew are moving to New
'I'ork this summer where he will be asso-
ciated with the law firm of Saterlee, War-
field and Stevens, They hope to find an
apartment in Tudor Village.

From the change-of-address cards I've
garnered the following: Drs. Rosie Holmes
and Harold Wilkinson are now living in
Swathmore, and Zola Gjnison Ware has
moved to Robertson, Mo., from Chatta-
nooga. Lucie Wood has left Va. for the
wilds of N.Y.C., while Betsy Brown has
quit the New York r - - race for Cleveland,
and Goode Geer DiRaddo has returned
.south to Florence, S. C, from New Jersey.

I'm sorry to have such slim pickings this
time. Please write me cards this summer
telling me your news so I can have lots for
the fall issue, which, incidentally, will go to
all alumnae. My husband surprised me on
my birthday with a copy of Tht Sloyi of
Sweel Briar College. I was really thrilled
with it, for it is truly a wonderful book and
one that erery alumnae ought to own. Why
don't you drop a hint around your house
if you have a birthday or anniversaiy com-
ing up.'

1950

President: ELIZABETH ToDD (Mrs. Joseph
D. Landen ) . 1211 Herschel Woods" Lane.
Cincinnati 26, Ohio.

SecreLiry: Francis Cone (Mrs. Andrew B.
Kirkpatrick, Jr.), 1 Westover Circle, Wil-
mington 6, Del.

Fund Agent: Marie Gilliam (Mrs. R. Hun-
ter Park), 611 McDaniel Ave,, Greenville,
S. C.

Sorry, but the news is scarce this issue.
Spring fever must keep everyone away from
pen and paper, because I always have a
difficult time acquiring news at this time
of year!

Nancy Storey White has finally come out
of hibernation and written a letter — many
thanks. She and Ed have two children,
Marian Bailey, 4, and David Storey, 2.
Nancy is active in the Junior League in
Columbus, Ga., having served as Publicity
Chairman, Newsheet Chairman, and Maga-
zine Chairman. The Sweet Briar Club of
Columbus recently sponsored a concert with
Miss Marik as pianist. They hope to start
an S. B. C. scholarship for a local girl with
the proceeds. Nancy and Ed were planning
a holiday in Havana the end of May. Nancy
also wrote news of Mary Lou Iltges, who
is now Mrs. Allan Brown, lives in Chatta-
nooga, and has three sons, Greg, Bobby,
and Steven.

I received the cutest letter from Rita Mur-
r.iy Gee — I wish you could all read it.
Actually there was very little news in it!
Rita and John have three children, two boys
and a girl (no names in the letter), they
own "part " of a house, and they spent two
weeks at Rehoboth Beach last summer. Rita
did say that I could mention that she had
Siamese twins or writes articles for "Confi-
dential, " but since neither is true, I don't
think I had better do this.

Sally Ann Bianchi Foster and Bob have
just bought a house in Verona. N. J. It is
a reproduction of an Early American farm-
house with beamed ceilings, random-width
floor boards, slanting eaves, and a brook
running through the property. Sally Ann
said that it was difficult to put its charm
into words, but that she fell in love with it
the day she saw it.

Lucy Kreusler Gary writes that she and
Earl were married last August 31. Lucy
is still working for the Department of
Welfare in Baltimore. Earl is a lawyer
there and is now on the staff of the Legal
Aid Bureau.

B. G. Elmore Gilleland wrote news of
several classmates. Jo Teetor Saxe called
her in December to say that she was living
in Hartsdale. N. Y. They went to the Sweet
Briar Day luncheon together. Betsy Alark-
graf Waring and Jim now live in Wilming-
ton, Ohio, and have three children, Jamie,
4, Mark, 3, and Nancy Blair, born Dec. 21.
1956. Merry Aioore I.yn and James live in
Wayland. Mass., and are building a home.

Bonnie Loyd Crane's letter was full of
news about Melinda Beth, born Nov. 18.
Bonnie's parents gave Melinda a fancy Eng-
lish carriage, and Bonnie says she gets many
compliments on it each time she pushes Me-
linda. Dave is teaching at Harvard and
also working in an architect's office.

Has anybody seen these gals? They are
lost: Bebe Streeter Smith. ^Iarianne Deta-
corle Holland, Elaine Alberts Fanjue. Fran-
ces Adams. Giff Gomila Thompson, Nancy
Thompson, lane Thompson. Ginny Mann
Caldwell, Hester Fleek King. Adele Wolj- '
son Piapinges.

Have a nice summer, but take time out
to write me!

Jl'NK 1957

1951

Preiideni: RuTH Clarkson (Mrs. Mark H.

Costello, Jr.), 10 Crosswinds, St. Louis 24,

Mo.

Secretary: Jean Randolph (Mrs. Alan

Bruns), 210 Sunset Ave., Charlottesville,

Va.

Fund Agtiit: Ann Mountcastle (Mrs.

Robert S. Gamble). Mediterranean Refinin.g

Co., P. O. Box 1925, Beirut, Lebanon.

I sowed the wind and really reaped a
whirlwind of news on those postcards, so
here .goes in as abbreviated form as possible.

Muff M.iris and Wendell Herbruck have
moved into a big old house in Canton, Ohio.
Joanne Bloom and Mathew Perriens are
livins; in Silver Springs, Md., have one
child. Carol Ann. 4; Joanne works for the
government, and Matt works full-time and
does work on a master's at George Wash-
ington Lfniversity at night. Sue Taylor
Lilley writes that Bob has been made a part-
ner in his law firm and she is busy with
Junior League provisional work. They are
planning a vacation in Nassau.

Jody Kiiehiili Kaufman says their life on
the edge of Amherst College. Mass.. "is
reminiscent of the rural collegiate life in
Vir,£;inia. except for a change of clime and
sex of students." Mary Pease and Rives
Fleming have a third daughter, Martha
Pease, born March 14. She says Anne Shet-
doii Taylor now has two boys. Sue Bauman
Robinson and David have two girls. 4 and 2.
and a son Paul, born last October. They
live in Chattanooga. Pinkie Barri>2,e,er
Wornham is just back from three weeks
in Hawaii where Tom had to go on Navy
duty. Tom is now in Japan, due back in
early June.

Terry Faulkner Phillips and her family
are in a larger apartment in Buffalo. She,
Charles and daughter Terry will be in Rich-
mond in June. Ann Be>ie! and Ken Yellott,
living in Cockeysville, Md.. have Andie, 2,
and a son, a big rambling house bought
last fall. Weinaramers. and are building
their third boat.

Wonderful news from Helen Stanley and
Mona Wilson. Helen was married June
8 to Rufus Herring, a North Carolinian, in
the furniture manufacturing business.
They'll live in Martinsville. "Va. Mona's
fiance is Willard Beard, of Manhasset. now
stationed in Portsmouth, N. H.. with the
Air Force. They'll be married July 27.
Chloe Mason and Ruth Oddy will be
bridesmaids, and I will be there because Til
be visiting my sister in Pelham that week.
Ruthie is still working in New York and
Chloe is in Durham, N. C.

Carlisle and Sallie Reed Anderson Bla-
lock have a new home in Dallas. "We
have had quite an eventful year. So far.
we moved into our new house, I let the
bathtub run over and flooded two whole
rooms (wall-to-wall carpeting even had to
come up), all three children had the mumps,
Pattie Lee fell and split her head open ( ^
stitches), the dog next door bit Pattie Lee,
Car<>l had a wreck on her tricycle and pulled
a fingernail out by the roots, and then I
wrecked the car. I feel like Calamity Jane."

Ann Red and Bob Barstow and three
children are in Houston and hope to stay
there forever. He's a lawyer, after two years
in the Air Force. Their household includes
also a dog, three cats, and a turtle. Kae
Fretz Goettelmann, living in Haddenfield,

N. J., has daughters Martha, 1, and Kath-
arine, born April 30. Louis, her husband,
is out of service (they were in Germany 16
months) and practicing architecture. Ellie
Davis, teaching at Chapin in New York, is
busy with choral groups and looking for-
ward to the end of school. Seymour is
chairman of her Episcopal Ladies Auxiliary.
"Peaso is of hers, too, but in my case, it's
ridiculous. "

Jackie Woods Gorman and husband Ken-
neth have three children and live in Balti-
more. Jane Moorefield is still a chemist
with the highway department in Columbia,
S.C., and had a trip to Washington and New
York this spring. Bobbie Horowitz and
David Miller have two sons, Bruce, 3. and
Steven, six months, live in Irvington, N. J.
Shrimp, who has been carried as Mary Sem-
ple on the class list, now admits to having
a lawyer husband. Eriing Riis, and tsvo
daughters. Fran, 2. and Betsy, just here.
They live in Mobile. She says Barbara Hahn
Smith's husband is an Episcopal minister
there. Katherine Phinizy Mackie and fam-
ily have a new home in Augusta, Ga. Peg
Seaman Sanville (who set a record for cram-
ming words on a postcard) and husband
Woody are in a new house east of Pitts-
burgh; she's a spectroscopist and he's a
research physicist.

Lynne AicCullougb and Deke Holcombe
plan a jaunt to Mexico City or boat trip on
the Gulf this summer. "The music racket
booms, and Lm having a ball. Along with
the teaching. I'm doing some chamber music
work and accompanying. Solo work slows
down after March but I played 5 or 6
times last winter for very nice audiences.
At least no one threw things."

Nanc7 Brumback Kruvand and husband
Mark have a son. Charles Mark, born Dec.
30. They live in Houston and she had re-
cently seen Nancy Merchant. Ann Leslie
Coolidge and Shelby Richardson, living in
Dallas, have a daughter, Nina, 3, and a
new house. Anne Adams and Lewin Weth-
ered. living in Baltimore, have a second son,
Benn'ett Blackford, born Feb. 28. Toddy
Barton, with her New Yorker stationery,
writes that "things are rolling merrily along
in the publishing business " and she loves
living in Chicago, where she has an apart-
ment.

Sis Hayden has been seeing M. J. Eriksen
Ertman in Cambridge and Ruth Oddy in
New York, was headed for Sweet Briar to
hood a cousin at commencement. Annie
Mountcastle and Bob Gamble left May 3
for Beirut, Lebanon, where they will live
three years. He will be manager of refin-
ery operations for CalTex there. Louise
Coleman and Archer Jones will be here in
Charlottesville this summer as Archer works
on his doctorate, then will go to Hampden-
Sydney College next fall where he will
teach. Mary Wise Parrot! Bullington
writes that they have three children. Andy.
6, Mary. 4. and Ben. 20 months. Bill got
out of the Navy last August and they are
in Roanoke where he is manager of an in-
vestment office. They have bought and
done over an old house.

L'rsula Reimer and Hank "Van Anda have
a daughter. Diane L'rsula, born in February.
Marcie Staley and Warren Smith have a
son, born last fall, and Joanne Williams
and Jimmy Ray have a son at last, born in
January.

N. K. writes she is busy with John.

Mary Coleman, 2. a Dachshund named
"Pretsel," a new patio and is planning to
ta.g along when John does his Navy stint
in Florida. Angie Wiiiabn and Bob Holli-
day recently moved into a new home, an-
other old house. Their son. Malcolm, is
nearly a year — he weighed only three
pounds five ounces when he arrived last June
but is husky now. He plays with Billy
Spears, Emmie Broun Spears' son. Angie's
husband sells power transmission supplies.

Patty Lynas and Dick Ford and their son
left in early May for Livermore. Calif., near
Oakland, where Dick will be vicar of St.
Bartholomew's Mission. It's an agricultur-
al community with two atomic labs and a
third going up. They'll be a day's drive
from their families for the first time since
they were married. Etta Craig Dick and
Harry Shurley have a daughter, Sally, who
is nearly two, and they have bought a lot
in South Hill, S. C, where they live.

Sue Lockley and Ned Glad have a new
daughter. Amy, born April 3- Sue is still
busy with Republican activities. Joanne
and Billy Ray had an involved spring trip
to Mississippi by way of Maine. They saw
Joan Davis Warren, Mary Emery Barnhill,
Nan Snoke Garrett, and Annie Moo. The
Ruckers, Marge Daridson and Ed and two
sons, leave in July for Boston where Ed
will take a residency in anaesthesiology at
Chelsea Naval Hospital.

Janet Broman Crane writes that they are
enjoying Cleveland, Ed is in a 40-man firm,
and they have an apartment boasting much
more room than the Yale Quonset hut. She
had recently seen Muff and Bud Herbruck.
CaroJ Rolston Toulmin was busy planning
a Montgomery Sweet Briar Club luncheon
and auction for two or three hundred guests.
Sue Ostrander Hood and her family have
made the apartment-to-house transition.
Lloyd recently bought his own life insur-
ance business.

And from the Red Fox: she was in San
Francisco in March for a Civil Air Patrol
meeting and the earthquake. "The confer-
ence was a success and so was the earth-
quake. This country gal didn't realize what
was going on. I watched the street ripple
and the buildings sway, felt the huge jolt,
and swore off booze for the rest of my life."

She saw Julie Micou, Rodes Estill and
Bee Coleman. On the way home she helped
with the rescue and cattle feeding work dur-
ing the late winter blizzards in western
Kansas. She was commissioned to do a
television script on mental health in early
May and has been handling publicity and
benefits for an Equity group of New York
actors who have started a theater in St.
Loui>i. She went to Joan Vail and Jack
Thome's wedding in March — Peggy Chis-
holm Boxley was matron of honor.

Nothing much new with the Bruns. One
interesting thing this spring was interview-
ing William Faulkner, who is at the Uni-
versity for a semester. Alan had an article
in Time Magazine on him.

1952

Secrejary: Jane Roseberrv (Mrs. John
Ewald, Jr.), 149 Wellington Rd., Garden
City, N. Y.

Fund Agent: Marv Bailey (Mrs. John Iz-
zard, Jr.), Apt. 27. 3181 Mathison Dr.. NE,
Atlanta, Ga.

Dear Ladies of '52: Fi\e years have gone
by — can you believe it.-' — since we loaded

Alumnije News

tennis rackets, hockey sticks, 300 pounds of
ncit-soon-to-be-openeJ-ai;ain bonks, and all
our current possessions, includin,t; one new
leather hound sheepskin, into the family bus
and headed home from Sweet Briar, for the
first time not thinkin.i; of a round-trip. This
will probably be read after our fifth reunion,
which I hope will be a bang-up one, so you'll
know much more news and details than I
can possibly impart here. However, for the
unlucky ones who couldn't be there, I'll do
my best to fill you in. I must admit that
Robbin AlcC.iii) Ramey was a wonderful
help in doin>; this. We burned up many
minutes on loni; distance so that I could get
all the info from the reunion questionnaires
you sent in to her as chairman. Robbin and
Bob, by the way, have a new little brother
for Robbin, born April 6, Robert McGarry
Ramey, to be called Garry. The Rameys
arc happily settled in their new house on
Route 3), Greenwell Court, outside Lynch-
burg, near Bob's new parish at Timberlake.
A card for my tile arrived |ust the other
day from Sweet Briar, unfortunately too
late for me to write and get an answer,
but you'll be interested to know that Barbara
(Tex) Meredith, so long unheard from, is
now Mrs. Rufus W. Higgenbothajn III, liv-
ing at 311- King's Row, in Dallas! Also
in Dallas is Nell Orand, who is designing
otfices for the Decorator's Center there.
Other new job developments to pass on
are: a reporter's life for Jane Carter who is
working for the Winston-S.ilem Jounial-
Sciiiiiul, a teacher position for Sally Gear-
hart in Nacagdoches, Texas (Robbin and
Bob ran into her on the train at Xmas time),
and the University of North Carolina is rich-
er by one secretary for Ann Garst. Pat Beach
is living in New '\'ork now, working part
time for Scribner's Books, and auditioning
for acting jobs. Pat recently appeared in
the Kraft Theatre's production of "Night
of the Plague."

Brigitte Guttstadt tells us that she is
working in a Child Guidance Clinic in
Alexandria and living there. Her sister
ioined her in November and their mother
came over for a visit in April. In glancing
over a brochure my husband got from a
club the other day, I discovered that Amy
V iII.dJ Block's husband. Huntington
(Bucky). has been elected president of the
District Association of Insurance Agents
in Washington.

Katie Bdhci/ck Mountcastle and I have
chatted several times recently. She and
Kenny flew to Mexico for ten diys the end
of April and had a wonderful time. Carma
l.iiii/).n Burton and Pot visited them this
Spring and they all spent a gay evening
with the Robert Mitchums at El Morocco,
no less I

Now for the wedding bells' Marion
Grej;or) and Poster Pettit (from Lexington,
Ky.) were married in Mayheld on April IS
at Shug's grandmother's lovely old home,
with a reception there later, Shug's picture
was lovely! After a wedding trip "South",
the Pettits are living in Rose Cott.ige, May-
wood Lane, in Charlottesville. Fester still
has another year in Virginia Law School
and Shug hopes to get a job at the Ini-
versity.

A former roommate of Ann Forester's
tells me that Ann married Jim Doolcy about
Xmas time! Jim, whom we met when we
were livin.g in VC'ashington, is a rising young
patent lawer there! By the time you read

CLASS OF 1952

Front row, L. to R., Nancy Hamel Clark, Susanna Judd Silcox, Mary lohnson Ford Gilchrist,
Joan Sharpe Melzinger, Martha Legg, Susannah Crist Lee, Brookey Morris Parrott. Second
row, Jackie Razook Chamandy, Charlotte Sneed Stifel. Sallie Anderson Jones, Mary Bailey
Izard, Nancy Messick, Frances Street Smith, and Josie Sibold. Also present but not pictured:
Sally Fishburn Fulton, Robbin McGarry Ramey, Anne Forsler Dooley, Jane Carter, and

Brigitte Guttstadt.

this, Becky Yerkes will be Mrs, John
Harrell Rogers. Becky and John were mar-
ried on June 1 in Jacksonville at Becky's
home with a reception later at Timuquana
Country Club. After a trip to Bermuda
and a little trotting about, the Rogers will
be nt home after July H at 4443 Iroquois
Avenue, Country Club Estates, in Jackson-
ville.

And what a prolific Spring this has been
to report I George and Donna Rt'ese God-
win have a new daughter, Mary Lawrence,
born Jan. 2, and Bayliss and Jackie Thorii-
loii Laramore are the proud parents of a
daughter, Susan, born on Jan. 9. Con-
gratulations to Mary Lois Miller Carroll and
Hugh who had little Lois Ann on February
27 in Endicott, New "^'ork, and to Bobby
Rich and Bruce 'Van Kirk who added Bruce
Harriett, Jr„ on March 7 to their family of
two daughters, Louise WarfieU Stump and
Stumpy had their first son and second child
in April, James McLane, and Pat Ruppcrt
Flanders and husband had Cynthia Ann in
March or April, Lyn Ljne and Harry Foz-
zard became the parents of Richard Lane in
March also, and Dick and Grace Dtlmifi
Einsel had a little girl, Lynn, on March 10,
in Rochester where Dick is studying at the
Rochester School of Music.

I talked with new bride Leiie Jenkins
Draper the other day (she's working for
Fi/rluiit at the moment), and caught her in
the middle of making Hollandaise sauce.
She tells me that Walter and Donna Roh-
iiison Card had their second daughter and
third child in January. Mary B.iiley Izard
and Jack became parents on April 17 of
Sadie Sadler!

My face was \ery red when I was told
that Stewart and Mary Johnson Prnd Gil-
christ's little boy. Henry Victor, who was a
year old in January, had been unheralded
here! Most profound aj'^ologies to the
Gilchrists and also to the Summerells (Ber-
ta Allen Rrnf) for not passin.g on the good
news about their little girl, Allen, who is
almost a year old now. We just found
out about the first class twins too, who
belong to Barbara McCidtiiu,e.h Gilbert. Law-
rence and Christina are also nearly a year
old.

Sally Soldier Lovelace wrote on her ques-
tionnaire that she and John are the proud
possessors of a son, John Henry, Jr„ whom
they adopted last August and who was a
year old in April. Sally just got her degree
from the L'niversity of Texas too, by cor-
respondence course. Hats off!

Pat I.jyne Winke and Don had a new
son, Michael, born on November 5. Jimmy
and Eulalie McFMl Fenhagen have another
son, John McFall; the Wells (Ann Pupe)
have a little boy, John Pope, and Frances
Street Smith and Gordon have little Pres-
ton, all about a year old at this point. These
may have been mentioned before, but I
wanted to be dead sure this time. Our
leunion will be literally alive with snaps
of the younger generation, I'm willing to
bet! ^

Peggy Nelson Harding and her husband,
N,G„ Jr„ expect to depart for Japan, with
the Navy, the end of July for a two year
tour, which sounds very exciting.

Since this is "Mama " Mary Bailey's swan
song — and what a terrific job she's done as
Treasurer — I'll say, for her, please don't
forget the Alumnae Fund. This year, pro-
ceeds will go to the Rollins Chair of Reli-
gion and to faculty salaries. As it's also my
wind-up communique to you, I'll say, for
me, that "It's been a pleasure to do busi-
ness with you " and hope you can forgive
my s^ns of (2mission and commLssion, Thanks
for bearing with me all these years. As for
us Ewalds, John has just started his own
law ptfice in Malverne, N. Y.. a few miles
away, and is workin.g far too hard but lov-
ing it. Because of my typically poor plan-
ning, I'm afraid I'll miss reunion, but have
a wonderful time and I'll be envying you
and thinking of you. A happy fifth!

1953

President: Kathi.ehn Bailey (Mrs, Charles

I, Nager. Jr,), 612 Meyer Ave,, Ft, Wayne,

Ind,'

Secretary: Nan O'KnEFFE, 12 Hawks Hill

Road, New Canaan, Conn,, or 109 E. 79th

St., N,Y.C.

Fund Agent: Virginia Hudson. 8} Pleasant

Street, South Weymouth 90, Mass,

Hi dear ladies! Before I get carried

June 1957

away on nuptials, birthings, ami all that
sort of thing, did you see Gage Bush in the
May 28 issue of Look Magazine? Very
interesting article, with Gage pirouetting
around Birmingham and looking just as she
did freshman year at SBC ! One does not
see many of us in the current magazine
trade. Very nice, but they neglected to men-
tion she had gone to Sweet Briar!

DIAMOND RINGS AND ORANGE
BLOSSOMS: This never seems to cease,
and you have been so good about telling
me all your plans. If I miss anyone who
has exciting news, forgive me, and send it
on. First, Caroline Miller and James
Ewing are getting married in Louisville on
June 1st. Nancy McDonald will be maid
of honor, Dolly Wallace and Dr. John
Hartnian of Charleston are engaged, and
will be married the 7th of September, They
will live in Columbus, Ohio, for a year or
two while he finishes up his residency.
Ann Vlerebome and John Sorenson, a fu-
ture minister, have announced their enga.sje-
ment. and will be wed in September, He is
at L'nion Theological Seminary, as is she,

Mary Kimball's frequent weekends in
Hartford have resulted in a lovely ring and
a wadding on May 25th. The man in ques-
tion is Bos Grier (Edward Bosworth Grier)
and they will live in West Hartford. Janis
Dawson Mudwilder will attend. Mary Ann
Mellj-n (that sneaky Pete) will be married
to John Root from Cleveland, with whom
she has been arguing for two years ! She
IS beaming and the wedding will be Friday
night, July 26th. They plan to live in
Cleveland or thereabouts. This never stops
. . . here is some more! Nan Locke has
completely given up her Yankee upbringing
and is gettin' hitched July 20th to Frank
Rosa from Montgomery. Anne Elliult Cas-
kie will be in the wedding. I was invited,
also to be in it, but cannot go, much to my
disappointment. Frank is an architect in
Mobile and they will live there.

Midge Chace was married on May 1 1th to
William Powell. Have heard no details of
this, but I believe Katzy B.iitey Nager and
CJ were planning to go. Cathy Munds
and Ben Storek were married April 27th
in Wilmington, Del., and what a delightful
SBC reunion we had. In the wedding party
were Dolly Wallace, Janet Martin Birney
(equipped with baby pictures), Anne Allen
Pfiugfelder: on the sidelines cheering with
strong loud voices were MA Mellen, Libby
Hill Chappie. Nancy Cornwall, Alice Har-
tuns, Corea and myself. It was a lovely fes-
tivity and Dr. Munds gave Cathy away, and
married her to Ben. Very moving indeed.
They have an apartment in Brooklyn
Heights, and we New Yorkers will get to
see her.

MATERNITY WARD AND DIAPER
DEPARTMENT: Lots of bbb's — Charles
Jago Elder was born to Virginia ]ago Elder
and Johnny on March 12. Born on the
dog's birthday, so there was quite a cele-
bration ! Kirk Tucker and Jack Clarkson had
a baby boy recently; don't know the date.
Lynne Kerwin Byron and Jamie had their
second, a girl, Sally Livingston.

Michael Moorhead McNair was born to
Cinne and Norm McNair in Louisville.
They have two little boys now. Janet Lee
arrived to Janet Hamilhurg Carter and Bob
on May 3rd. Nancy Bomar Andrews and
Dave have their second child, a boy, David

Stafford Andrews, weighing at birth, 7 lbs.
II oz. And Mother Kitty Cuerranl Fields
now really has someone to mother since
Frances Holbrook came to their home on
March 7th, weighing in at 7 lbs. 4 oz. I
certainly do hope all these lovely young
ladies have been registered at SBC. Kitchen
privileges in Dew Dorm, you know.

SUBURBIA: Connie Werly and Dave
Wakelee have bought a home in Farming-
ton, Conn., in which to raise their brood of
three. Dave is with the Stanley Tool Co., I
believe. Dale and Ted Harris are building
in Lynchburg, and Anne Kirksey Ervin and
Tate are building or about to, a little ivy-
covered cottage in Morganton, N. C. It
isn't ivy-covered, I just got tired of saying
home!

Nancy Morison Cravens, Uncle Chuck
and baby Charlie are in Dallas, Texas,
where Chuck is with a law firm. Charlie
will be two in July. Bev Williams Fox and
Ken are stationed in Germany with the
Army. Bev writes that Germany is nice,
but she can't wait to return to the good old
USA, more specifically, Charlottesville,
where they have a sort of farm-estate be-
tween C'ville, and Ash Lawn. That would
not be bad at all, I'm a-thinkin' ! They plan
to get home by January of 19''S.

I spent a weekend in Boston and the
near environs of same with Ginnie Hudson
recently. Had a .grand visit, discussed the
SBC fund situation (had to get in a plug)
and bad a lovely luncheon at Nancy AUGin-
nis Picard's house with her two little darling
boys. She is terribly domestic, looks wonder-
ful and cooks like the best chef in New
York. A fun time.

1955

President: Nancy Anderson. Hudson,

Ohio.

Treasurer: Catherine Cage. 1007 Sul Ross,

Houston, Texas.

Secretary: Amanda McThenia, 130 East

57th St., New York 22, N. Y.

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Hello Folks! Here I am in the wicked
big city now doing the usual, a Secretarial
Course so I can type my notes for the
"News". I have seen many "55ers" who
have migrated up here. Ethel Green and
Chase Lane live just three blocks away.
Ethel's big news is a September wedding
when she will become Mrs. Bruce Banta.
Bruce is at Columbia Law School and will
soon go into his father's firm in Hacken-
sack. N. J., so that means that our "south-
ern belle " will be permanently in the north
lane, Feltus just recently became Mrs.
James Welch and they are back from the
honeymoon. Jim is with a law firm here
and Jane is busy with another play. Char-
lotte Taylor is busy with Y.W.C.A. ana
teaching. She recently visited Nancy An-
derson in Hudson and saw Newell Bryan
while in Ohio. Bexy Faxon Sawtelle and
Mai are spending the summer in Maine
and when Mai graduates next year, will go
"up yonder" to live. The 55ers who aren't
in New York or somewhere else are located
in the Nation's Capitol. I chatted with Gay
Reddig the other day. She is startin.g law
exams at George Washington L'niversity.
She sees Vida Radin who is also studying
Poly Sci. at American University. Joan
Gualtieri, Pat Tucker and Nancy Douthat
are living together. Pat is engaged but my
apologies cuz I don't know his name. Also
apologies to Gretchen Armstrong who is
marrying soon. More about that in tiie
next. Barbara McLamb is off having a gay
time in Bermuda on the banker's convention
but at lunch before she left she gave me
the scoop on Tinker Beard and Bar Black
who are havin.g furnaces blow up and flood-
ed basements in their house in Rochester.
Bar, who is with the Atomic Energy Com-
mission gets periodic vacations for being
exposed to radio activity. Also in Roches-
ter is Elsie Wachenfeld, who will finish Med
school soon. Among the proud parents of
future Sweet Briarites are Diane Verney
Greenway and Jimmy who have a little girl,
Virginia, and are stationed in Texas. Also
Lydia Plamfi Plattenburg and George, with
Lauren Scott in Texas too and Bar Plamp
Hunt and George with Susan. When
Mother was in the hospital for so long, I
practically lived with Andy Wallace and
her wonderful family. She is doing her
own program at WCHV in Charlottesville
where Gail Davidson Bazzarre and John
are living permanently. Didi Stoddard,
who has been teaching English, Religion
and Drama (of course) at Madiera, and I
will be bridesmaids for Jane Lindsey on
June 15 when she says "I do" with Dick
Riddle. I hope there'll be lots of us there
cuz Jane is migrating to Denver. Colo,, and
that's mi.ghty far away. Rumor has it that
Catherine Cage is hopping an oil plane and
coming up to New York to sit in on the
New York Stock Exchange! She is now
a broker in Texas, Can't think of a better
person to entrust our class funds, and you'd
better send her that check and advise any-
one else vou may run into to do the same.
We could have lOO'Tc perfection and besides
you want to keep on getting this fascinating
collection of words, don't yru.' So goes
the world and as usual I'm passing the
deadline. Be good and if you're in the city
.nive me a call.

Alniiiiide News

Well, perhaps, if you want to be strictly literal.

And yet, when she reaches college age will she be too

late' Too late to get the kind of higher education

so vital to her future and to the future of her country?

It all depends.

There is in the United States today a growing threat to
the ability of our colleges to produce thinking, well-
informed graduates. That threat is composed of several
elements : an inadequate salary scale that is
steadily reducing the number of qualified people who
choose college teaching as a career; classrooms and
laboratories already overcrowded; and a pressure for
eni'ollment that will double by 1967.

The effects of these shortcomings can become extremely
serious. Never in our history has the need for educated
leadership been so acute. The problems of business,
government and science grow relentlessly more complex,
the body of knowledge more mountainous.
The capacity of our colleges— all colleges—
to meet these challenges is essential not only
to the cultural development of our children but
to the intellectual stature of our nation.

In a very real sense, our personal and national progress

depends on our colleges. They must have more support

in keeping pace with their increasing importance to society.

Help the colleges or universities of your choice. Help them
plan for stronger faculties and expansion. The returns
will be greater than you think.

If you want to know what the college
crisis means to you, write for a free
booklet to: HIGHER EDUCATION,
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THE SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

WE POINT WITH PRIDE

TO THE PROGRESS OF THE

ROLLINS FUND

TO ESTABLISH THE WALLACE E. ROLLINS PROFESSORSHIP OF RELIGION

AT SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE

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Admiring the tulips in the garden of Firenze House, Mrs. Guggenheim's home in Washington, D. C, are Beatrice Dingwell Loos, '46, Washing-
ton president, Mrs. M. Robert Guggenheim, and Martha Mansfield Clement, '48, former Co-chairman, with her children, Ann and Sarah.

OPERATION TULIP BULB CHANGES BASE

Sweet Briar Alumnae have now
completed six years of expanding sales.
It is with mixed feelings of pride and
regret that the Washington Club an-
nounces that as of 1958 "Operation
Tulip Bulb" will be administered by
the Alumnae Association through the
Alumnae Office.

We take this opportunity to thank
our thousands of patrons for their past
enthusiasm and support. We are confi-
dent that this change will further aid
our successful project.

DoREEN Boo/he Hamilton. '54

Sally Anderson Jones, '52

National Co-Cha'irmen

ViviENNE Barkalow Hornbeck, '18

Honorary Chairman

1957 Bulb Project Financial Sheet

Group or Club

Orders

Amount

Amherst, Va.

$ 299.66

Atlanta, Ga.

112

1,671.03

Baltimore, Md.

137

1,865.54

Boston, Mass.

523.89

Charleston, W. Va.

194.00

Charlotte, N. C.

411.92

Charlottes\iile, Va.

201.13

Chattanooga, Tenn.

848.54

Chicago, 111.

1,172.46

Cincinnati, Ohio

1,281.52

Cleveland, Ohio

701.10

Columbus, Ohio

804.60

Connecticut

116

1,886.35

Durham, N. C.

276.02

Franklin, Va.

153.10

Fredericksburg, Va,

. 7

76.75

Indianapolis, Ind.

884.48

Louisville, Ky.

1,146.47

Lynchburg, Va.

384.75

Memphis, Tenn.

1,574.38

Group or Club

Orders

Amount

Minneapolis, Minn,

. 51

$ 808.30

Nashville, Tenn.

227.90

Norfolk, Va.

862.22

Northern N. Jersey

121

1.968.09

Philadelphia, Pa.

124

1,931.79

Pittsburgh, Pa.

560.29

Richmond, Va.

151

2,466.60

Roanoke, Va.

731.73

Rochester, N. Y.

118

2,014.33

St. Louis, Mo.

727.50

Spartanburg, S. C.

31.45

Springfield, 111.

38.60

Suffolk, Va.

129.65

Toledo, Ohio

598.45

Warwick, Va.

365.25

Washington, D. C.

307

5,689.52

Westchester Co.,

New York

8.25

Wilmington, Del.

85
,293

1,469.31

Total 38 2

$36,986.92

ALUMNAE NEWS

THE SWEET BRIAR
ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION

OFFICERS

Gi-ADis W'eiter HoRTON. '30

President

Phoibh Roue Pkters, '31

Virst Vice-President

Ella-Prince Trimmer. '56

Second Vice-President

Elizabeth Bond Woon. '3^

Executive Secretary and Treasurer

Nancy Dowd Burton. '46
Chairman of the Alun/nde Fund

Alumna Member
BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Sara Sballenherger Brown, '32

Alumnae Member,s
BOARD OF OVERSEERS

Nan Powell HoDt;ES, '10
Katherine Blount Andersen, '26
Rebecca Young Frazer, '35
Margaret Cornwell Schmidt, '37

MEMBERS OF THE
EXECUTIVE BOARD

Mar"*' Clark RocERS, '13
Dorothy Keller Iliff. '26
Ellen Newell Bryan. '26
Marion jayne BER(,umo. '28
ViRt.iNiA Van Winkle MoRLinc.E, '28
NoRVELL Royer 0R(,A1N. '30

Ri TH Hasson Smith. '30
At.NES Cleteland Sandifer.
Elizabeth Myers Hardinc,
Betty Smartt Johnson. "38
Ann /Morrison Reams. '42
Sarah Louise Adams Bush.
Marguerite Hume. '43
MaR(,aret Muniierlyn Havi;rty. '47
Barbara Lisier Edc.erle^'. '"SI
MAR^• Lir McGinnis. '')4

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VOLUME TV(ENT\-SEVEN
NL'MBER ONE

Elizabeth Bond Wood, '3h

Editors Judhh Feild Vooelback

FALL 1957

THE GRACE OF THE ZERO POINT

DRAWING IS GIFT FROM CLASS OF '21

MARTHA LOU STOHLMAN TEACHING AT SBC

APPOINTMENTS MADE TO NEW ENDOWED CHAIRS

EXPERIMENT IN LEARNING

I'OCUS ON THE FACULTY

THE PRESIDENT WRITES

THE SWEET BRIAR FUND

IREH DEDICATED TO M. DEE LONG

MARGARET SCHMIDT IS BOARD NOMINEE

CHAPEL FUND GROWS

WE POINT WITH PRIDF

ARE YOU HERE THIS YEAR.''

REPORT ON ALUMNAE FUND

CLASS NOTES

OIR COVER
From the land of tulips. Madame van
Roijen, wife of the Dutch Ambassador,
shares her garden at the Embassy in
■Washington. D. C, with National Co-
chairman Sally Anderson Jones, '53. and
her daughter, Star.

Issued six times yearly; November 1st and 15th, Februarj-. March. May. June,
by Sweet Briar College. Entered as second class matter November }0, 1931 at the
Postoffice at Sweet Briar, Virginia. Member of the American Alumni Council.

THE GRACE OF
THE ZERO POINT

LYSBETH MUNCY

PROFESSOR OF

HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT

"/ Lhtt-e just rtturncd jrniii d won-
ci erf III Siibbit/iciil year in Germany,"
said Miss Miincy ivhen she addressed
the sliideiils and faculty at the open-
ing i(>}iiocdlinn this fall. Following
is pari of her ihoiight-provoking
speech.

THR title that I have chosen for
my talk is "Re-examining our
Values" because I believe that the pro-
found experience of the German peo-
ple has importance for all of us. We
all have a group of values, acquired
either consciously or unconsciously,
which influence our decisions, our
actions, which mold our lives. Per-
haps you have purposely adopted a
positive credo such as the Ten Com-
mandments or the Golden Rule, the
Declaration of hidependence or the
Gettysburg address, "For God, for
Country and for Yale" or " — for
Sweet Briar." Surely we all have In-
terests, loves, fears, convictions which
have taken possession of us, often
without our knowledge, but which
really reflect what we value most.
What would you take with you, for
example, if you heard an air raid siren
blowinj^ in earnest and had to rush

Mr. John Matthew. Miss Muncy and Presi-
dent Anne Pannell together on the plat-
form after the Opening Convocation.

Sta§ Photo — LynchbtiTa News

Alumnae News

tor a shelter or be evacuated? Would
you reach lor your jewelry? your mink
cape? HIS picture? your Bible? your
passport ?

What we believe in, what is most
important to us is always shifting and
changing as we have new experiences,
come under new influences, acquire
new interests, as old values are tested
and found true or wanting. Our values
may alter for the better or for the
worse but you may be sure that they
are always changing, preferably by
purposeful scrutiny and re-assessment
on our part, l-or me the most impres-
sive quest of the Holy Grail is not that
by the young Galahad, but by the Parsi-
\al of Wolfram von Eschenbach — a
man growing slowly wise.

Fate forced the Germans swiftly
and violently to test their values and
see what survived that test. The famous
cabaret entertainers in Berlin, the Insu-
laner, that is the Islanders — sing
this wry refrain; "We are brave not
because we want to be but because we
must!" The Nazi Terror, the war and
its bombing, the occupation by the
Russians — and also by the Americans,
British and French, gave the German
people an opportunity to see lite in
a new way and to ground it on new
values.

WHAT seemed important to these
people as they crowded into air
raid shelters night and day, as they
lived herded together in the base-
ments of houses while their Russian
conquerors roistered in the rooms
above? They knew no safety; they
were e\er at the mercy of the bomb,
the whim of a Russian soldier, the
cravenness ol an informer. They had
no means of civilized existence, little
or no food, heat, clothing, no furni-
ture, no sanitary facilities, tew if any
utensils. All the material means of a
good life had vanished. How could
these people find dignity and grace
and beauty in life under such condi
tions? They practiced courtesy and
consideration for others as they never
hail before. They tried to make a
thing of cheerfulness and beauty out
of every relationship. All the common-
place annuities of daily life shone
with a new importance. They tried to
anticipate their neighbor's necessity and
to share with the more needy the little
that they had. Here was fellowship,
a generous, uncalculating cooperation
irrespective of .social origin, education.

pre\ ious economic condition or way of
life.

Here was humour too tliat could
lift the heart out of the grimmest loss
or the most paralyzing terror. In Ham-
burg during the war this story brought
the relief of laughter: When the city
was being bombed nightly at precisely
the same hour two old ladies went reg-
ularly to the air raid shelter. One
night the bombers were slow to arrive
and finally one lady turned to the
other and said, "Oh, dear, I do hope
nothing has happened to them." The
Berliners have a special kind of dry,
matter-of-fact wit that flashes out in
every situation. The morning after a
particularly devastating bombing of a
residential area two Berliners were
surveying the ruins. One said, "If they
keep up like this they will have to
bring their own houses with them."
A true prophesy !

When the bombs thundered destruc
tion or the occupying troops, like
locusts, carried off everything in the
houses many Germans thought first
of their possessions, of their "valu-
ables." But their second thoughts were
different. "When we found our home
completely destroyed," a bank director
told me, "we cried 'all our furniture is
gone.' But worse, much worse was that
we lost dll of our Mozart sonatas. We
soon had furniture made from orange
dates but it has taken us years to re-
place the sonatas." Quite naturally, we
might think, the Germans, as they
left their homes, made a point of carry-
ing their silverware with them only to
find that in a city without food, with-
out houses, without the old way of life
it was quite valueless. How they wished
they had left the silver and taken their
1 ersonal papers instc-ad. For they now
found themselves without identity,
that is, technically without individual
being, a cipher. How they wished lor
a pass[X)rt, a birth certificate, marriage
Certificate, school diploma, .some scrap
of evidence of individual existence,
status and achievement! And how they
had to struggle to get new papers, to
re-establish their official right to he .i
person !

Siher and jewelry were no good to
them either when it came to proving
their training, their skills and pro-
fessional abilities. The diplomas, the
certificates, the degrees were all gone.
Only individual performance counted
now. When the Russians ordered a
group of Berlin women to work re-

pairing the streets and carrying off rub-
ble, they protested that they were
nurses and were badly needed in the
hospitals. But they had no proof, no
school or hospital records. So the
Russians gave them a practical test
bandaging legs and arms, giving in-
jections, etc., and if they showed
professional .skill they were certified
as nurses. This precious piece of paper
brought them new assurance of in-
dividual standing and recognition.
They had proven that they were in-
deed trained and able. Of course
teachers, typists, truck drivers, many,
many skilled and educated individuals
met a similar challenge, testing and
proof. As I have said, only individual
performance counted now; all that a
man — or a woman — had now was
what he had learned, what he carried
around with him in his fingers, his
mind and imagination, his memory,
his disciplined will and his spirit.

THAT trained mind and richly
stocked memory, those years in
school and university had a great deal
more than practical value for thi- Ger-
mans in their disaster, as we in a Lib-
eral Arts College should know best.
From that storehouse of recollection
and of intellectual experience came the
objectivity and perspective that made
it possible to accept the present and
the future with tolerance and with
patience, came the solace of remem-
bered beauty that brightened the mind
and steadied the spirit, the flashes of
truth that brought a sense of power
and purjX)se in life, a courage to go
on. Not the least of the joys of the
educated mind was that it provided the
means and indeed the compulsion to
relieve the boredom of prison and
concentration camp. Professors were
soon lecturing. But of course you
know how difficult it is to keep a pro-
fessor quiet tor any time at all! Law-
yers and ]iolitical men were talking
too, bot.mists were teaching about the
plants in the camp, ornithologists
about the birds; language courses were
organized. Many taught and all could
learn, learn from what each brought
with him when he walked into th^
camp.

You know of course as I do that the
German losses in the war and after the
war were not all material. They were
psychological and spiritual as well.
Many Germans were deeply torn be-

Fall 1957

tween a feeling of patriotism and a
sense of right. They loved their coun-
try and wanted to remain loyal to it in
its extremity, yet they hated Hitler and
the government he led. The plot ol
the twentieth of July, 1944, is still a
subject of dispute among Germans to-
day. Others who kept their faith in
Hitler until the end were left dazed
and blank by the collapse of the Nazi
order. The Germans were proud of
their nation and its history and yet
they realized that Hitler had been
bred by their past. German history had
produced a monstrous dictator. Ger-
man scholars, first that great giant of
German historians, Friedrich Meinecke,
then many others such as Walter
Hofer, Alfred \on Martin, etc., began
at once to re-examine and re-evaluate
German history and to reappraise Ger-
man national heroes, Bismarck in par-
ticular. This new look at German his-
tory was symbolized for me by a monu-
ment I saw in Creteld on the Rhine.
The great granite pedestal with the
name "BISMARCK" carved in it was
standing on the square — but there
was nothing on it. The figure of the
chancellor was gone. What, the Ger-
mans are asking themselves, is to take
the place of the old history, the old
heroes, the old loyalties.''

Yes, the Germans suffered great and
deep losses during the war and the oc-
cupation. What they possessed, much
that seemed important to them, much
that they believed in was stripped from
them. There was nothing left to worry
about, nothing to save, nothing to fear
for, nothing now but mind and spirit,
They had found, as one woman said to
me, the grace of the zero point. Now
they had a new sense of well-being,
a new sense of freedom, a release from
worldly bonds. I cannot tell you how
often I heard a German say, "Never,
never again, will I care about posses-
sions, never again will I worry about
things."

COUNT Yorch von Wartenberg,
condemned to death for his share
in the plot of July 20, 1944, wrote in
his last letter to his wife that things
which had formerly seemed of great
value to him had lost all importance
now: his fortune, his family estates,
his ancient title of nobility, the family
tradition of patriotic service to Prussia,
his social position, his friends, his
country, his work for the church, even
his wite and children had faded into

the periphery of existence. The only
thing that remained central and kept
its meaning for him was being a
Christian.

Others who lived on through the
terrors, the privations and bewilder-
ment of the postwar years, which were
greater even than those of the war it-
self, found in the grace of the zero
point a new beginning. With the fall-
int; away ot old possessions and old
attachments came an upsurge of new
energies, of a new will to build, to
create, the vision ot a new and nobler
future that should be started at once.
One of those with a new vision of the
future and the ideas and courage to
build it was Agnes von Zahn-Harnack.
Daughter of the great German theolo-
gian, Adolf von Harnack, wife of Herr
von Zahn and mother of two children,
she was a woman of great intellectual
and spiritual powers and a very
gracious lively person. She had been a
leader of the dynamic and progressive
women's movement that grew up in
Germany during the Weimar Republic.
In 1945, with other leading German
women, she began to rebuild the old
women's organizations that had been
shattered by the Nazis and the war.
She set them to work again improving
social and political conditions, de-
manding higher educational standards,
renewing ties with sister organizations
abroad, often in former enemy coun-
tries. A part of her work was to take
the lead in reviving the German Feder-
ation of University Women and she
was chosen its president. Wh:-nthe Ger-
man Federation of University Women
set up their first fellowship to be
granted to an American woman their
one thought was to honor it by naming
it after her.

Do not think that it was easy for
Agnes von Zahn-Harnack with her
two children and her ruined home and
fortune to face the terrors and uncer-
tainties of life in Berlin just after
the war. But let me read you a few
words which she wrote then and you
will see with what spirit she met each
day and how she gave courage to
others too:

What we need is an unconcjuerable
optimism. And e\cn if we must
struggle each night to find the place
where we can take our stand the
next day, the morning should find
us sure, firm, yes, even cheerful. A
stream of confidence must flow from
us; no one should say to us that
hope is the expedient of the weak.

We stand by the conviction that it
is the expression of our power,
that we will grow strong through
quietness and hope. Therefore we
inust bring to our task what we pos-
sess of intellectual and moral
powers, of cleverness and goodness,
of seriousness and gladness. It is
valid to fill life full of the highest
idealism in simplicity and sincerity,
in holy seriousness and holy
Braciousness.

SO IT seemed to me that the war
and postwar years had brought
the Germans a new, a deeper and a
richer sense of values. But if I am to
tell you the whole story I must add a
sad epilogue. Whenever I mentioned
to a German my admiration for their
new values and my envy that they had
out of their hard experience freed
themselves from their attachment to
possessions and opinions and a fear
of losing them, he would shake his
head sadly and say, "Yes, that's the
way it was right after the war. But
now.-* Now with the German economic
wonder materialism has taken posses-
sion of us. Now there is a mad rush
to produce, to sell, to spend, to
possess and enjoy all the material
goods of this world." I must admit,
alas, that there is much truth in this
retort. Perhaps the Germans have a
compulsion to make up for the long,
lean years during and after the war.
Here, at any rate, we may see again
that under new conditions values may
undergo still further changes. But I
know also that there are still many
Germans who have not forgotten and
will never forget the freedom and the
buoyancy that came with the grace
of the zero point.

What, you may ask, is the use of all
this to us.-" Must one be bombed and
invaded, must one lose everything,
must one be forced to the zero point
before one can see things differently
and appreciate other values ? Is it neces-
sary to burn down the house in order
to roast the pig? I should say not and
I feel sure that the Berliners would
agree with me. Certainly it is possible
to test, to reject, to accept values, to
grow under ordinary decent peaceful
civihzed conditions. Surely it is not
necessary to experience everything first-
hand in order to learn, else education
would have no sense at all. If we will,
we can learn much from the Berliners,
from all the Germans.

Ahimnae News

Drawing Is Gift
from Class of ^21

b) Martha von Briesen

A work by a contemporary artist,
Leonide Berman, has recently b.en ac-
quired by Sweet Briar College through
the generosity of members of the Class
of 1921, who wanted to make a gift
to the new dormitory, and contributed
a sum at the time of their class reunion
in 1956.

A wash-drawing in brown tones, en-
titled "Clam-Diggers Near Varcches,"
this work was executed in 1952. Ac-
cording to Miss Eleanor Barton, Chair-
man of the Art Department, this draw-
ing "is typical of Leonidc's interests
and abilities, his skill in suggesting a
far-off sky arching over a vast reach
of sand and water, and his quiet power
of evoking a sense of time and place."
The drawing was chosen for these
qualities, and for its suitability for
the place where it has been hung, the
parlor of William Bland Dew dormi-
tory.

Berman, who was born in Leningrad
in 1896, has worked chiefly in France,
with travels elsewhere in Europe and
in the United States. Ever since 1926,
when some of his works were entered
in a group exhibition in Paris, he has
been identified with "Neo-Romanti-
cism," a movement which attracted
artists who held "that art should re-
turn to a concern for man and his
emotions" after some of the extremes
of abstract art. Leonide Berman's
younger brother, Eugene, is noted as a
painter and stage-designer.

The drawing has been eflfectively
framed in a shallow shadowbox,
matted in harmonizing linen with a
soft brown edge.

Martha Lou Stohlman
Teaching at SBC

Of great interest to alumnae is the
news that Martha Lou Ltninioii Stohl-
man, '34, has been appointed Visiting
Professor of Psychology at Sweet Briar
for the current academic year. This is
the latest of the many ways in which
Martha Lou, the author of "The Story
of Sweet Briar College," has ser\ed
her alma mater. With her husband.

"Clam-Digqers Near Vareches" hangs in the parlor a\ Dew where il is
viewed with opproval by Richard Carroll oi the Art Department.

who is a retired professor of art and
archaeology at Princeton University,
and their two children, Julie, ten, and
Sue, seven, she is living in Amherst
where the children have entered grade
school. Martha Lou received her A. M.
and Ph. D. from Cornell University,
and taught for seven years at Colorado
College.

Appointments Made to
New Endowed Chairs

To fill the new "Betsy Cushing and
John Hay Whitney Professorship
of Physics," Sweet Briar has selected a
noted physicist. Dr. Lilly Rappaport.
Dr. Rappaport has been the Senior
Physicist in the Naval Ordnance Re-
search Laboratory at the University
of Virginia since 1954 and prior to
that was with the Pratt Chemical
Laboratory at the University. She lives
in Charlottesville where her husband,
Dr. Jacques Rappaport, teaches biology
and plant physiology at the University,
and she will come over to Sweet Briar
three days a week to teach her classes.

Mrs. Rappaport, who taught for
nine years at Smith College, took her
Ph.D. at the University of Vienna.
She came to the United States in
1938 and for two years was a research
fellow in physics at the University of
Oklahoma. She has also taught at
Northiastern Oklahoma College and
the University of Massachusetts.

The new chair of physics was made
possible by a gift from Ambassador
and Mrs. John Hay Whitney in 1955.
The Whitneys recently designated
their gift tor this purpose.

Dr. Dorothy Thompson of the
Chemistry Department of Sweet Briar
twill occupy the "Rockefeller-Guion
Professorship of Chemistry" recently
established with a gift of Si 13.000
from Laurance, Nelson, David and
Winthrop Rockefeller and their sis-
ter, Mrs. Jean Mauze. This gift was
presented to Sweet Briar in 1955 in
honor of Dr. Connie Guion.

Miss Thompson received her A. B.
and A. M. from Mount Holyoke and
her Ph.D. from M. L T. Before com-
ing to Sweet Briar, she was a research
chemist at Du Pont, and she taught
for eight years at Wheaton College.

Fall 1957

Eva Villaran, a Peruvian student taking
French, is recording a passage on a plastic
disc. When it is completed, she can play it
back and compare it with a master recording.

Jane Alien photo

Dr. Arthur Bates, Professor of French, is
enthusiastic about the possibilities of the new
language laboratory.

EXPERIMENT in LEARNING

Sweet Briar's Modern Language
Laboratory is beginning its second
year of operation. Acquired through
a grant from the Fund for the Ad-
vancement of Education, the newly
installed facility was the scene last
year of one of a number of experi-
ments conducted throughout the
country to find means of conserving
college teaching resources.

The object of Sweet Briar's experi-
ment was to determine to what ex-
tent qualified students could serve as
laboratory supervisors, thereby free-
ing faculty time for other teaching
duties, and the encouraging results of
the experiment have brought about
expanded use of the laboratory and of
the student supervisor system.

At present the laboratory is used

regularly in beginning language
courses, in most conversation courses,
and in phonetics, these periods serving
as a supplement to the work in the
classroom. In the laboratory the stu-
dent listens to a master tape record
and repeats the words or phrases, re-
cording them on a small plastic disc.
The playback of this disc allows her
to hear and compare the master re-

Alumnae New!

cording and her own repetition. One
of the great advantages of such a sys-
tem is the enormously increased time
which the student spends in actually
speaking.

Upperclass students, chosen not
only for their superior linguistic
ability but also for their reliability, an
interest in teaching and a certain
mechanical aptitude, serve as super-
visors. They operate the master tape
and record players, instruct students
in the use of the equipment, and give
linguistic information and advice.

With increasing self-confidence,
students begin to use words and idio-
matic expressions with a degree of
ease usually not achieved except after
long exposure to older methods of
classroom instruction. Encouraged by
such progress, they find new pleasure
in learning, and teachers observe re-
markably impro\'ed results in com-
parison with those obtained with older
procedures.

Isolated from one another in booths lined with acoustic tile, these students are listening
to a master tape, repeating it into a microphone, and then listening to playbacks.

Page Phelps, a student supervisor, listens
to a recording made by a beginning student.

Focus on the Faculty

hy Prince Trimmer

TWO freshmen, passing the Re-
fectory at 7 p.m. on October
17th, were heard to mutter, "What is
going on in there? Who are all those
women?" Perhaps you can guess that
"those women" were neither rioting
students nor visiting Martians but
instead the members of Sweet Briar's
Alumnae Council back for their an-
nual meeting.

In fact, by the time the two fresh-
men had spotted the visiting fund
agents, club presidents, alumnae rep-
resentatives, and members of th;
Executive Board, "those women" had
been "going on" for over twenty-
four hours since their arrival on cam-
pus early Tuesday evening.

Only the Executive Board was
scheduled for activity that first night;
so. while others were unpacking, rest-
ing up or catching up, the fourteen
Board members were busy consider-
ing the inclusion of Bulb and Scholar-
ship Chairmen for the 1958-59 Board
as well as the creation of a new tenth
region to encompass the West Coast
and Hawaii. Then they, too, decided
that beauty-sleep might not be a bad
idea if they were to compete in simi-
lar garb with the newly-robed Seniors
the next day.

That Preposterous College at Street
Briar in 1906 came to life Founders'
Day morning when Marion Rollins,
reading Martha Lou Lemmon Stohl-
man's imaginative, creative manu-
script in her absence, informed "those
women" and others present of the
early days of the college — days when
two students occupying a three-room
suite was nothing unusual and young
gentlemen might be entertained in
rooms (provided, of course, there
was a faculty chaperone). While the
majority of the community took ad-
vantage of the beautiful day to make
the annual pilgrimage to Monument
Hill, the Executive Board reconvened
to finish last minute business before
the afternoon session of the Alumnae
Council as a whole.

The knowledge that in the last six
years the Alumnae Clubs have sold
97 tons of bulbs (for a total of
$154,145 and a net profit of $59,409)
made everyone feel jubilant. It also
made them feel quite proud of and
grateful to the Washington Club

which is now turning over the bulb
project — a child well-dressed — to
be handled by the college. Of the var-
ious clubs reporting, twenty-eight
have already contributed a total of
$10,992 toward the goal of 100':f
club contribution to the Rollins Fund.

Scurrying to don more festive garb,
the alumnae served as hostesses at a
tea in Sweet Briar House and were,
in turn, served a delicious dinner in
the Refectory in the presence of the
current student leaders. Later they
gleaned from these leaders all manner
of information, from an enlightening
report of a truly revamped student
government association to an account
of the Junior Year Abroad activities.

Thursday may have brought the
rain, but the rain did not lessen the
number of "going ons" for "those
women. " Fund Agents and Club
Presidents staged independent meet-
ings until mid-morning when all alum-
nae gathered to participate in the

Alumnae Representatives Workshop
and to hear Miss Williams and Martha
von Briescn speak on admission pol-
icies and public relations. And at noon
they heard Mrs. Pannell's exciting
report of her presentation to Queen
Elizabeth and her chat with Prince
Philip at the governor's reception in
Williamsburg.

Dampened but undaunted, many
alumnae attended the dedication of a
tree in memory of Miss Dee Long on
the lawn in front of Fletcher follow-
ing lunch. From there it was only a
short walk to the A. A. Room where
the focus was placed squarely on the
faculty. Interesting talks by Mr. Bates,
Mrs. Rappaport, Miss Muncy, and
Mr. Crowe gave insight into the fields
of French, physics, history, and phi-
losophy as well as giving rise to avid
discussions at the ensuing Faculty-
Alumnae groups. Still chattering, the
various groups moved from their par-
lors to Dew's Emily Bowen Room for
tea and dinner then in the Refectory.

Then it was time for "those women"
to pack up and depart. For the infor-
mation of the muttering freshmen,
they had had a wonderful time!

The President Writes

Dear Alumnae:

The Executive Board is proud of
the many achievements of the last
year. Particularly impressive is the
support which the alumnae and clubs
have given to the Rollins Fund. The
college's 50th anniversity and the
Development Program have brought
the alumnae closer together and stimu-
lated their interest, activity, and sup-
port. We now gladly accept the
challenge to maintain this renewed
interest and translate it into an e\'er
finer, stronger Sweet Briar. By help-
ing to meet this challenge you will
not only assure a better college for
the future but will also put a higher
value on your own Sweet Briar edu-
cation.

The Board is again proud of making
the American Alumni Council's
"honor roll" as one of the ten leading
colleges in the country in our percent-
age of graduate contributors to the
Alumnae Fund. However, we still lag
far behind in the percentage of all

alumnae contributors. It is in this area
that we hope to show improvement
at the end of the year. Our goal is to
increase by 10'^^ the number of alum-
nae participating in the Fund. We
especially want to reach those who
are not including Sweet Briar in their
plans for annual giving. Remember
that starting this year all alumnae
gifts to the college, for whatever pur-
pose, will be credited to the Alumnae
Fund.

The Board welcomes your sugges-
tions and questions. Your ideas can
help us determine policy and choose
the right course to follow.

With your continued and renewed
interest and support we can look for-
ward to an even more successful and
rewarding year.

Very sincerely.

Alumnae Net,

The

Sweet Briar

Fund

What Is If?

The Sweet Briar I-"und is a perma-
nent annual-pi\ing program estab-
lished last year by the Board of 0\er-
seers, with the unanimous approval
of the Executive Board of the Alumnae
Association. The Sweet Briar Fund
combines — but does not replace! —
the Alumnae Fund, the Parents Fund,
and the Development Program. All
gifts to the college, for whatever
purpose, will help to swell the Sweet
Briar Fund. They will be credited to
the Alumnae Fund if given by alum-
nae, to the Parents Fund if given by
parents, or to the Development Pro-
gram if given by corporations, founda-
tions, or friends.

W/jaf's Nciv?

For the first time, gifts to the Alum-
nae Fund may be designated for a
particular purpose, if the donor so
desires. The advantages of unrestricted
gifts will still be stressed in Alumnae
Fund appeals: they can be used where
most needed, and allocated by the
Alumnae Associdtion for current proj-
ects the Association decides, by an-
nual vote, to support. (For example,
the Alumnae Fund is currently ear-
marked by the alumnae for the Rollins
Fund and for oth;r faculty salaries —
both immediate, critical needs of the
college.) Yet any alumna who wishes
her gift to be used for a "pet project"
such as the Auditorium, the Science
Building, th; Memorial Chapel, or
some particular endowment fund, may
designate her gift for that purpose
and still have it counted, and credited
to her class, in the Alumnae Fund.

Why?

By giving everyone the opportunity
to designate her gift, if she prefers
to, we hope to avoid a duplication of
appeals, and at the same time retain
the support of those who may be more
interested in such a specific need
than in the current projects adopted
by the Alumnae Fund. Gifts made
for specific purposes are often larger
than annual Alumnae Fund gifts.
Sweet Briar needs these larger gifts,
and recognizes the justice of counting
all alumnae gifts in the Alumnae
Fund, instead of only unrestricted

gifts, and thus for the first time show-
ing a true picture of alumnae support.

The Developmeni Council

To assist the officers of the college
in seeking large gifts for the Sweet
Briar Fund, and to coordinate the
work of the Alumnae Fund Com-
mittee, the Parents Fund Committee,
and the Development Committee, the
Board last year established a Develop-
ment Council. This group is com-
posed of current and former Board
members, alumnae, faculty and statf,
students, parents, and other friends
of the college.

New Memorial Gifts

Two recent gifts to the college have
established memorials to Sweet Briar
alumnae.

Mr. and Mrs. James S. Benn of
Wynnewood, Penrisylvania, have
given the college $8,500 to establish
The Dorothy Benn Scholarship in
memory of their daughter, a member
of the class of 1925. Dorothy was
forced to leave college after her
sophomore year because of ill health.
She was married to Walter L. Morgan
and died July 6, 1941. Her parents
used to visit the campus and have
kept in touch with Miss Ruby Walker
and other members of the Walker
family.

In memory of Jean Besselievre
Boley, '35, who died October 6, 1957,
a new fund in her name has been
established by her father, Edmund B.
Besselievre, of Maumee, Ohio, and
her husband, Herman V. Boley. The
memorial fund, to which many of her
friends have made contributions in
lieu of flowers, will be used "to en-
courage among other Sweet Briar stu-
dents her own life-long interest in
creative writing." An annual prize of
SlOO will be given to the student
submitting the best short story dur-
ing the year. The fund may also pro-
vide a grant-in-aid for a junior or
senior with a demonstrated talent for
writing, who retjuires financial assist-
ance. Jean Boley was the author of two
novels, "The Restless" and "The Baby
Lamb," and of many short stories in
the Saturday Eienin^ Post. The New
Yorker. Harper's and other magazines.
Her last article, describing her long
illness, will appear in the December
issue of Tbe Ladies' Home ]ournal.

The Rollins Fund

(As of November 7, 1957)

Alumnae $31,293.88

♦Faculty, staff and students 9,940.88
* Board of Overseers .... 13,433-25

Parents 4,326.00

Friends 2,407.00

Class of 1913 5,200.00

Class of 1931 1,565.91

Class of 1932 1,020.00

Class of 1957 250.13

Sweet Briar Alumnae Clubs

Atlanta 1,000.00

Baltimore 500.00

Boston 300.00

Central Ohio 75.00

Charleston, W. Va 75.00

Charlotte 85.15

Charlottesville 370.00

Chattanooga 350.00

Chicago 110.00

Cincinnati 350.00

Connecticut 300.00

Lynchburg 350.00

New York 1,000.00

Norfolk 350.00

Northern New Jersey .... 250.00
Peninsula Club of Va. ... 100.00

Philadelphia 1,000.00

Pittsburgh 300.00

Richmond 550.00

Roanoke 225.00

Rochester 500.00

San Francisco 30.00

Spartanburg 47.49

Toledo 500.00

Twin Cities 350.00

Washington, D. C 2,000.00

Wilmington, Del 100.00

Memorials

Harriet Shaw McCurdy . . 352.50
Emma Rollins McTigue . . 60.00
Calvert de Coligny 10.00

Virginia Theological Seminary

Alumni and Faculty ....2,364.50

Esso Education Foundation 4,000.00
Total 587,491.69

*Not including alumnae

(Short Editorial — The thanks of the
entire college go to everyone, and to
every Sweet Briar Club, responsible
for bringing us so close to our goal.
If you would like to help complete the
Rollins Fund, please send in whatever
you can now, before that December 1
deadline for the Kresge Foundation's
$50,000 conditional grant.)

Fall 1957

Tree Dedicated to
M. Dee Long

by Ethel Ramage

ON the afternoon of Thursday,
October 17, at 2:00 o'clock in
front of Fletcher the dedication of the
memorial tree in honor of Miss M.
Dee Long took place with Dean Pearl
in charge of the ceremony. Miss Long
was a beloved member of the English
Department from 1919 until 1950
when she retired.

At the time of her death in 19^4
her friends wished to establish a
memorial to her in recognition of her
generous and unselfish service to the
college community during those thirty-
one years. Three plans were considered
and adopted — all showing the varied
interests of Miss Long. The first was
the planting of a tree to her memory,
for she took great pride in the beauty
of the campus; the second, a contri-
bution to the Memorial Book Fund of
the Mary Helen Cochran Library for
the purchase of books in American
Literature, one of the fields of study
which she most enjoyed; and the third,
the establishment of a scholarship to
help in meeting a need she always
keenly appreciated. All three memo-
rials have been growing concurrently,
and now the completion of the first —
the placing of a bronze marker on a
young copper beech — has been ac-
complished.

Margaret Schmidt
Is Board Nominee

THE Executive Board of the Alum-
nae Council has submitted to the
Board of Overseers of Sweet Briar Col-
lege the name of Margaret Coiiiwel!
Schmidt, '37, as its nominee for elec-
tion to the Board.

Martha Lou Stohlman, elected to the
Board of Overseers last spring, has re-
signed to accept an appointment as a
member of the faculty of Sweet Briar.
The constitution and by-laws of the
Sweet Briar Alumnae Association
state in Section 5, Article VII, that
"To fill an unexpired term of office
the Executive Board shall submit a
candidate to the Board of Overseers
for election."

The copper beech dedicated to Miss Dee Long is admired by Martha von
Briesen. '31, Dean Mary Pearl, Miss Ethel Ramage and JCss Sarah T. Ramage.

Margaret Schmidt is well-known to
most Sweet Briar alumnae, having
served most successfully as the Exec-
utive Secretary of the Association
from 1950 to 1955. Active in student
affairs, she was elected house presi-
dent, a member of Chung Mung and
the May Court and head of basket-
ball. An outstanding hockey player,
Margaret was on the United States
Field Hockey Team in 1940 and 1941.
Margaret was married in 1942 to
Clarke Schmidt, partner in the law
firm of Cobbs, Logan, Roos and Arm-
strong. While serving in the Intelli-
gence Service of the U. S. Air Force
Major Schmidt was killed in 1944.

At present Margaret is connected
with the John Burroughs School in
St. Louis where she is advisor to the
junior girls, in charge of the testing
program, and teaches reading to 7th,
8th and 9th grades. Added to this
she teaches hockey in the afternoon.
In her "spare" time she keeps house
and gardens at the attractive home
where she and Ruth, aged 13, live.
She also finds time for much Sweet
Briar work and is the alumnae rep-
resentative from St. Louis and reun-
ion gift chairman for the class of 1937.

Chapel Fund Grows

bj Gertrude Dally Massie, '22

THE Sweet Briar Memorial Chapel
Building Fund is growing ! The
chairman is pleased to announce that
the Fund now totals $15,000. While
we realize that many times this amount
is needed before we can build, we
feel encouraged and gratified by the
number of gifts that have been made
since June, 1957.

When the whole Sweet Briar family
becomes better acquainted with the
memorial plan of giving, I am certain
that contributions will increase in
number. Those whose lives have been
touched by family, friends, teachers,
or relatives will want to make a memo-
rial gift in their memory, or in their
honor if they are still living.

A list of the various committees
will appear in the next issue of the
Alumnae News. Please read this. If
your name does not appear and you
would like to take an active part
in the Chapel project, please write
to me. Your help is welcome and will
indeed be appreciated.

Alumnae Neu>i

We Point With Pride

Not only to our freshman alumnae
daughters pictured helovv but to those
daughters in other classes who are out-
standing in all phases of campus life.

Alumnae daughters on the Dean's
List this semester include Sally Austen
(Langhorne Watts, '32); June Ber-
guido (Marion Jayne, '28); Winnie
Leigh (Maud Winborne, '35); Kenan
Myers (Jessie Hall, '31); and Jane
Shipman (Martha McBroom, '31).
Two oth.r senior alumnae daughters
with excellent academic records are
Elizabeth Smith (Jane Callison, '30)
and Letha Wood (Letha Morris, '32),
who studied abroad last year.

Juniors on the list include Fleming
Parker (Alice Dabney, '32) and Tabb
Thornton (Jane Riddle, '27).

Many offices are held by alumnae
daughters. June Berguido (Marion
Jayne, '28) leads the list as she is
president of Student Government As-
sociation. Claire Cannon (Cordelia
Penn, '34) is senior house president
of Dew, and Brownie Lee (Rebekah

Strod:-, '34) is house president of
Grammer. Mary Layne Bryan (Ellen
Newell, '26) is vice president of the
YWCA; Eleanor Humphreys (Emma
Knowlton, '32) is chairman of the
Student De\elopment Committee, and
Kenan Myers (Jessie Hall, '32) is
chairman of the Campus Chest Com-
mittee.

On the Judicial Board we find Win-
nie Leigh (Maud Winborne, '35) as
vice chairman and Jane Jamison (Sara
Callison, '29) as junior representative.

Editing the Briar Patch this year is
Fleming Parker (Alice Dabney, '32),
and the business manager is Snowden
Durham (Josephine Snowden, '27).

Judy Graham (Mary Bristol, '26)
is vice-president of the senior class and
Head of Lake. Adrianne Massie (Ger-
trude Dally, '22) is secretary to the
Athletic As.sociation and Sally Austen
(Langhorne Watts, '32) is business
manager of the Choir.

Elected to Tau Phi were Mary Lane
Bryan, W-.nnie Leigh, and Elizabeth

Smith. June Berguido and Marian
Martin (Boyce Lokey, '30) had been
tapped for Tau Phi in their junior
year.

The sheet clad group which sings,
"Glory, glory, Fm a Chung Mung" in-
cludes alumnae daughters Eleanor Cain
(Anne Maybank, '22), Tabb Thorn-
ton (Jane Riddle, '27), and Mary
Johnson (Margaret Moncure, '29).

Among the members of the Sweet
Briar Junior Year in France Program
is Kathleen Mather (Kathleen Car-
michael, '33) who is the holder of the
Jeanne and Joseph Barker Scholar-
ship. Scholarships have been awarded
to Winnie Leigh, June Berguido,
Brownie Lee, Norvell Orgain (Nor-
vell Royer, '30), Laura Conway
(Eleanor Wright, '32), Maria Gar-
nett (Mildred Wilson, '27) and
Judith Haskell (Sarah Bright Gracey,
■32).

Another milestone for the college
was reached with the entrance of
Su2anne Wallace. Suzanne is the first
girl at Sweet Briar who can claim that
both her mother, Hortense Hostetter,
"34, and her grandmother, Velna
White, '12, have been students at
Sweet Briar.

FIRST ROW: Judith C. Haskell (Sarah Bright Gracey. '^2): Sheila Haskell (Margaret Merritt, 'S?); Kathryn Prothro (Elizabeth Perkins. '39);
Sue Stubbs (Sue Graves, '33); Maria T. Garnett (Mildred Wilson. ^T); Laura M. Conway (Eleanor Wright. '32); Suzanne Wallace (Hortense
Hostetter. 34). SECOND ROW: Nell Morlidge (Virginia Van Winkle. 'aS); Ann Rutherlord (Ethel Ware. 'SD; Suzanne N. RuHin (Virginia
Bellamy. ■32); Maury Bethea (Elizabeth Doughtie, '32); Elinor Scherr (Mildred Bushey. '29); Morybelle L. IliH (Dorothy Keller, '26); Jane
W. Garst (Marietta Derby. '33); Louise Hardie Chapman (Anne Hardie. '26). Not pictured: Willia Fales (Rose Hyde, '38).

Fall 1957

"w::*

1926

Helen Mulschler Becker raised $1,479.00 and
second highest average gift of $36.97.

Are You Here This Year?

1952

Mary Bailey Izard enrolled 91 donors and had
second highest per cent giving — 57%.

"T"T T" ITH the rebirth of the small college has come an upswing in
VV alumnae giving. Now, recognizing what their alma maters
mean to America, alumnae are more willing than ever before to
contribute to their support. More and more Americans recognize what
the small college contributes and how essential it is to strengthen and
extend its contribution." — The Readers' Digest.

The National Advertising Council in cooperation with the
Council for Financial Aid to Education has recently undertaken a
two year nation wide advertising campaign using all available
media — radio, television, newspapers, and magazines — to urge
YOUR support of The College of Your Choice. The impact of this
campaign will impress you. With such emphatic unanimous support
of alumnae giving, a Sweet Briar alumna can draw only one
conclusion.

Sweet Briar is proud of the 2,121 alumnae who showed their
support of her by contributing to the 1956-57 Alumnae Fund. You
have placed Sweet Briar once again on the American Alumni Council
Honor Roll of Percentage of Graduate Contributors.

It is the work of the class fund agents which has made this
fine record possible. Their constant efforts and enthusiasm have
raised the largest Fund in Sweet Briar's history.

Agent Class

1st place Mary Bailey Izard 1952

2nd place Virginia Hudson 1953

1st place Helen Miitschler Becker 1926

2nd place Kathryn Smith 1956

1st place Frances Murrell Rickards 1910

2nd place Mary Bailey Izard 1952

1st place Mary Clark Rogers 1913

2nd place Helen Mutschler Becker 1926

Number of donors
Total amount
Percentage giving
Average gift

* ■ f^

•■-%'-

1913

Mary Clark Rogers raised an aver-
age gift of $86.50 from her
classmates.

1956

Kalhryn Smith had the second
highest total of gifts— $1,122.25.

r
1

Special recognition is also due the following agents who sur-
passed last year in both number of donors and amount contributed:

1949 Catherine Cox

1950 Peggy Gillidiii Park
19'52 Mary Bailey Izard
1953 Virginia Hudson

1911 Virginia Hint Turner

1917 Rachel Lloyd Helton

1931 Peronne Whittaker Scott

1934 Betty S tit lie Briscoe

1935 Juliet Hallihurto)! Burnett 1955 Catherine Cage
1938 Moselle IFow/ej Fletcher 1956 Kathryn Smith
1942 Mary Ruth Piersoii Fisher

This year we hope you will help Sweet Briar win a place on the
Honor Roll of Percentage of All Alumnae Contributors. The follow-
ing list shows how many more donors are needed in your class to
make this goal a reality:

Class

Additional
Donors

Needed

Class

Additional
Donors

Needed

Class

Additional
Donors
Needed

Acad.

1925

1941

1910

1926

1942

1911

1927

1943

1912

1928

1944

1913

1929

1945

1914

1930

1946

1915

1931

1947

1916

1932

1948

1917

1933

1949

1918

1934

1950

1919

1935

1951

1920

1936

1952

1921

1937

1953

1922

1938

1954

1923

1939

1955

1924

1940

1956

Will you

be one?

1951

Ann Mountcaslle Gamble, Foreign Agent,
serves her class from Beirut, Lebanon.

1910

Frances Murrell Rickords got 83% to give.

Academy and
Special

Nannie Claiborne Hudson
sends out the most letters.

1953

Virginia Hudson had the
second greatest number
of donors — Seventy-four.

1956-1957 ALUMNAE FUND

JUNE

30, 1957

Class Year Number Contributing

erage Gift Percentage Contributing

Amount

Academy and Special 55

$13.49 12

$742.00

*1910 10

24.80 83

248.00

t*1911 5

17.00 38

85.00

1912 5

14.80 45

74.00

*1913 11

86.50 31

951.50

*1914 6

12.83 32

77.00

t*1915 9

21.44 30

193.00

1916 9

15.33 31

138.00

t*1917 18

13.74 49

247.00

1918 22

11.32 59

249.00

1919 13

23.61 32

307.00

1920 13

11.61 25

152.00

1921 24

11.25 32

270.00

1922 23

14.18 29

397.10

*1923 37

10.66 31

394.50

1924 34

9.94 35

338.00

1925 21

9.14 24

193.00

1926 40

36.97 32

1,479.00

1927 45

17.42 37

784.00

192n 38

11.87 33

451.00

1929 56

12.76 37

714.62

*1930 49

15.96 32

762.26

•f*1931 48

13.06 37

627.00

*1932 40

14.04 32

561.75

1933 48

11.00 29

528.25

t*1934 59

12.68 40

748.50

t*1935 70

10.94 43

766.00

1936 45

12.52 32

563.50

-1937 41

16.17 42

663.00

t*1938 65

11.41 45

742.00

*1939 68

13.84 46

941.00

*1940 ■ 61

8.86 41

540.75

1941 59

10.27 39

606.00

t*1942 59

12.20 45

720.00

*1943 57

13.24 41

755.00

*1944 60

9.28 42

557.00

*1945 49

14.16 34

694.00

1946 66

8.76 49

578.00

*1947 48

9.63 33

462.50

*1948 63

11.46 38

722.34

t*1949 60

11.21 47

672.50

t*1950 52

7.59 35

395.00

1951 70

9.58 51

667.91

t*1952 91

10.23 57

931.28

t*1953 74

8.82 50

653.00

1954 61

7.42 39

453.00

t*1955 71

10.80 46

767.00

t*1956 73

15.37 ■ 42

1,122.25

1957 10

74.00

1958-1959 5

39.00

Friends

2,073.63

$28,872.14

Total 2,121

Credited to last year's fund

102.50
171.87

Interest from bond

$29,146.51

Banner Class

Amount Contributed 1926

Number Contributing 1952

'Surpassed 1955-1956 total amount.

Banner Class

tSurpassed I9'55-1956 total contributors

Report of the twenty-fourth

ANNUAL ALUMNAE FUND

Alumnae Fund from 2,121 contributors $29,146.51

Reunion gift from class of '32 1,020.00

Benedict Scholarship 525.00

Local Scholarships from dubs 10,821.13

Rollins Fund from 24 clubs 8,142.64

Alumnae gifts to the Development Program 45,443.00

Chapel Memorial Fund 242.00

Richmond Club for Burnett Dining Room . . 62 5.00

$95,965.28

ALUMNAE CONTRIBUTORS

1956- =^7

Academy and Special

§742.00—12%

Agrent: Nannie Claiborne Hudson

Florence Anderson
Loulie Antrim Mason
Helen liafcvr Waller
Gertrude Bilhuber
Helen Broiv7ic Hobart
Jane Carothcrs Clarke
Mildred Cobb Roosevelt
Elisabeth Coohr Shryock
Jessie Dardin Christian
Jessie Dixon Sayler
Helen Duke
Faye Elliott Pogue
Estelle EnAOT Rutherford
Addie Erwin Des Portes
Fanita Ferris Welsh
Eleanor Fnrman Hudgens
Gillian Goodall Comer
Mary Pajre Crammer
Claudine Griffin Holcomb
Frances Harrison Webster
Edwina Henael Wharton-Smith
Mary Herd Moore
Virginia Hill Smartt
Eleanor Hoi'irood Fulton
Ruth Jarknon Leatherman
Josephine Johnson Smith
Marjorie Lindsay Coon
Cynthia Mager Mea«l
Lou Emma SfcW'horttr CarroJl
Mabel McWam- Harrah
Ellis Meredith

Em Turner Mrrritt Nickinson
Mary Mixon McClintock
Katherine Sicolson Sydnor
Eloise Ormc Fort
Katherine Page
Juliet I'arria Gill
Marion L. Peele
Margaret Potts Williams
Ella Kodis Hutter
Clare Shcnchon Uoyd
Ethel S/iooj> Godwin
Viricinia Shoojt Phillips
Edna Stfvrs VauKhan
Elizabeth Stiuart Wylie
Marina Stiles Wilkins
Eleanor Stonr Gates
Barbara Trigg Hrown
Austin Turner Jones
Martha Valentine Cronly
Margaret Wilson Hallantyne
Sara Wilson P'aulkner
Laura Woodbridge Foster
Marion Yvrkes Barlow

1910— $248.00— 83%

Affent: Frances Murrell Rickards

Marjorie Coupcr Prince
Annie Cuninoclc Miller
Marpraret Eaglesficld Bell
Eugenia Griffin Burnett
Louise Hooper Ewell
Claudine Hutter
Frances Murrell Rickards
Nan Powell Hodges
Adelaide Schockey Mallory
Mary Scott Glass

1911— $85.00— 38%

Agent: Virginia Hurt Turner

Alma Booth Taylor
Louise Crump Surber
Virginia Hurt Turner
Ruth Lloyd
Mary Virginia Parker

1912— $74.00— 45%

Agent: Margaret Thomas Kruesi

Miss Virginia McLaws
Margaret Browning Burt
Virginia Etheridge Hitch
Hazel Gardner Lane
Frances Sloan Brady
Margaret Thomas Kreusi

1913— $951.50— 31%

Agent: Mary Clark Rogers

Dr. Connie M. Guion

Eugenia finffington Walcott
Mary Clark Rogers
Sarah Cooper
Henrianne Early
Elizabeth Frajike Balls
Sue Hardie Bell
Vivian Mosaman Groves
Mary Pinkertoii Kerr
Sue Slaughter
Dorothy Swan Lent
Mary Clifton Tabb George

1914— $77.00— 32%

Elizabeth Anderson Kirkpatrick
Julia Bevilie Yerkes
Elizabeth Green Shepherd

Alice Swain Zell

Doris Thompson Reeves

Henrietta Washburn

1915— $193.00— 30%

Leiia Dew Preston
Rosalia B. Fcdcr Sarbey
Jane Gregory Marechal
Helen MrCary Ballard
Frances W. Pennypacker
H. Lei Red
Anne Schutte Nolt
Louise P. Weisiger
Anna Wills Reed

1916— $138.00— 31%

Agent: Antoinette Camp Hagood

Margaret Banister
Louise Bennett Lord
Zalinda Brown Harrison
Antoinette Camp Hagood
Dorys McConntll Faile
Maria Neville Brown
Mary Ptnnyjtacker Davis
Edna Rigg Brown
Lucy Taliaferro

1917— $247.00— 49%
Agent : Rachel Lloyd Holton

Faye Abraham Pethick

Anna Bevcridge Leake
Mary Bissell Ridler
Katherine Browne Camlin
Edith Christie Finlay
Margaret Gibson Bowman
Dorothy Gramnier Croyder
Jane Henderson
Constance Krieg
Rachel Lloyd Holton
Ruth Mcllravy Logan
Elsie Palmer Parkhurst
Bertha Pfister Wailes
Gertrude Piper Skillern
Inez Skillern Reller
Genie Steele Hardy
Jane Tyler Griffith
Mary Whitehead Van Hyning
Bessie Whittet Towsen

1918— $249.00— 59%

Agent: Vivienne Barkalow Hornbeck

Vivienne Barkalow Hornbeck
Iloe Bowers Joel
Priscilla Brown Caldwell
Cornelia Carroll Gardner
Louise Case McGuire
Martha Daven}>ort Kennedy
Gladys GilHhind Brumback
Cilia Guggenheimer Nusbaum
Gertrude Kintzing Wiltshire
Elizabeth Lowmaii Hall
Grace MaeBain Ladds
Margaret McVey
Catherine Marshall Shuler
Marianne Martin
Margaret McCluer
Charlotte More Melony
Jane Pratt Belts
Mary Reed
Lois Suuters Jones
Eleanor Smith Walters
Esther Turk Hemmings
Martha V. Whitehead
Virginia Williams Wells

1919— $307.00— 32%

Agent: Caroline Sharpe Sanders

Katharine Block
Ellen Bodley Stuart
Mary M. UcLong McKnight
Elizabeth Eggleston

Florence Freeman Fowler
Pauline Gauss
Tennie Lomiey Burton
Isabel Luke Witt
Mildred Meek Meador
Jane Byrd Ruffin Henry
Caroline Sharpe Sanders
Carrie Taliaferro Scott
Isabel Wood Holt

1920— $152.00— 25%
Agent: Isabel Webb Luflf

Margaret High Norment
Ruth Hulburd Brown
Geraldine Jones Lewis
Frances Kenncy Lyon
Corinne Loncy Benson
Rebecca MacGeorgc Bennett
Helen Mason Smith
Ida Massie Valentine
Elmyra Pennypacker Yerkes
Frances Raiff Wood
Helen Strobhar Williams
Isabel Webb Luff
Dorothy Whitley Smyth

1921— $270.00— 32%

Agent: Rhoda Allen Worden

Josephine Ahara MacMillan
Rhoda Allen Worden
Gertrude Anderson
Elizabeth Baldwin Whitehurst
Russe Blanks Butts
Julia Bruner Andrews
Catherine Cordes Kline
Edith Durrell Marshall
Fanny Ellsworth Scannell
Frances Evans Ives
Christine '7sc/iM'iT)c// Camlin
Fredericka Hackman Maxwell
Catherine Hanitch
Florence Ives Hath-away
Mary McLemore Matthews
Gertrude Pauly Crawford
Maynette Rozelle Stephenson
Marion Shafer Wadhams
Madelon Shidler Olney
Ophelia Short Seward
Frances Simpson Cartwright
Ruth Simpson Carrington
Florence Woelfel

1922— $397.10— 29%

Agent: Katherine Shenehon Child

Alice Babcock Simons
Julia Benncr Moss
Marjorie Bergen Cohee
Lorraine Boirles Chrisman
Selma Brandt Kress
Gertrude Dally Massie
Burd Dickson Stevenson
Ruth Fiske Steegar
Elizabeth Fob! Kerr
Ruth Hagler McDonald
Helen Hodgsk.n Fingerhuth
Elizabeth Huber Welch
Mary Klumph Watson
Virginia W. Little
Margaret Marston Tillar
Ethel McCltiin Bumbaugb
Alice Miller Bly
Katherine Minor Montague
Aline .V/or/o» Burt
Mary Munson
Elizabeth Murray Widau
Maylon Sewby Pierce
Beulah Norris
Virginia Ranson
Katherine Shenehon Child
Grizzelle Thomson
Ruth Ulland Todd
Marion Walker Neidlinger

1923— $.394.50— 31%

Beatrice Bryant Woodhead
Margaret Hurwell Graves

Fall 1957

Dorothy CopeJand Farkhunt
Emma Crockett Owen
Dorothy EUis Worley
Mildred Featherston
Helen Fossum Davidson
Helen O. Gaus
Jane Guignard Curry
Mary Harman White
May Jennings Sherman
Hannah Keith Howze
Fitzallen Kendall Fearing
Frances Lauterbach
Mildred LaVenture McKinney
Jane Lee Best
LaVern McGee Olney
Richie McGuire Boyd
Helen McMahon
Edith Miller McClintock
Marjorie Milligan Bassett
Dorothy Nickelson Williamson
Phyllis Payne Gathrigrht
Evelyn Plummcr Read
Lydia Purcell Wilmer
Helen Richards Horn
Martha Robertson Harless
Frances Smith Hood
Virginia Stanbery Schneider
Elizabeth Taylor Valentine
Helen G. Taylor
Elizabeth Thigpen HiU
Lorna Weber Dowling
Katharine Weiaer Ekelund
Catherine Wilson Nolen
Margaret Wise O'Neal
Katberine Zeuch Forster

1924— $338.00— 35%

Agent: Mary Rich Robertson

Florence Bodiiie Mountcastle
Genevieve Elstini Moodey
Byrd Fiery Bomar
Susan Fitchett
Jacqueline Franke Charles
Caroline Flynn Eley
Ethel Gaines Bruner
Augusta Gee Loggins
Jean Grant Taylor
Marian Grimes Collins
Elizabeth Guy Tranter
Eleanor Harned Arp
Bernice Hulburd Wain
Harrell James Carrington
Emily Jeffrey Williams
Lydia Kimball Maxam
Clara King Maxwell
Kathryn Kluniph McGuire
Martha Lobingier Lusk
Muriel MacLeod Searby
Mary D. Marshall Hobson
Grace Merrick Twohy
Mary Mitchell Stackhouse
Frances Nash Orand
Margaret Nelson Lloyd
Elizabeth Pape Mercur
Mary Rich Robertson
Eleanor Sikes Peters
Susan Simrall Logan
Rebecca Snyder Garrison
Elizabeth Studley Kirkpatrick
Marion Swanneli Wright
Josephine vonMaur Crampton
Gladys Wood2vard Hubbard

1925— $193.00— 24%

Katherine Agard Flewelling
Helen Bane Davis
Jane Becker Clippinger
Virginia Buffington Wham
Mary Dugan Young
Muriel Foasum Pesek
Clara Belle Frank Bradley
Eugenia Goodall Ivey
Dorothy Herbison Hawkins
Cordelia Kirkcndall Barricks
Martha McHenry Halter
Margaret Masters Klauder
Elizabeth MacQueen Nelson
Eleanor Miller Patterson
Mary Nadine Pope Phillips
Evelyn Pretlow Rutledge
Mary Sailer Gardiner
Lucille Smith Lindner
Mary Irene Sturgis
Ruth Taylor Franklin
Helen Tremann Spahr
Mary Elizabeth Welch Hemphill

1926— $1,479.00— 32%
Agent: Helen Mutschler Becker

Ruth Abell Bear
Rebecca Ashcraft Warren

Nell Atkins Hagemeyer
Martha Bachman McCoy
Dorothy Bailiy Hughes
Anne Barrett Allaire
Kitty Blount Andersen
Mary Bristol Grah-am
Mar>' Broivn Moore
Anne Claiborne Willingham
Helen Dunlcai^y Mitchell
Page Dunlap Dee
Frances Dunlop Heiskell
Beulah EUis von Arnim
Gudrun Eskesen Chase
Katherine Farrand Elder
Louise Fuller Freeman
Mildred Gribble Seiler
Dorothy Hamilton Davis
Jeanette Hoppinger Schanz
Daisy Huffman Pomeroy
Ruth Johnston Bowen
Dorothy Keller Iliff
Mary Kerr Burton
Margaret Laidley Smith
Edna Lee Gilchrist
Mildred Lovctt Matthews
Elizabeth Matthew Nichols
Helen Mutschler Becker
Ellen Newell Bryan
Katharyn Norris Kelley
Lois Peterson Wilson
Kathryn Peyton Moore
Margaret R. Reinhold
Jane Riddle Thornton
Virginia Lee Taylor Tinker
Marion Van Cott Borg
Cornelia Wailes Wailes
Margaret White Knobloch
Ruth Will Beckh

1927— $784.00— 37%

Agent: Elizabeth Mathews Wallace

Maude Adams Smith
Eleanor Albers Foltz
Camilla Alsop Hyde
Marjorie Atlee Parks
Jeanette Boone
Laura Boynton Rawlings
Madeline Brown Wood
Daphne Bunting Blair
Elizabeth Gates Wall
Caroline Compton
Elizabeth Cox Johnson
Margaret Cramer Crane
Virginia D. Davies Nettles
Esther Dickinson Robbins
Emilie Halsell Marston
Claire Hanner Arnold
Gwin Harris Tucker
Sarah L. Jamison
Catherine Johnson Brehme
Margaret Leigh Hobbs
Margaret Lovett
Ruth Lowrance Street
Elizabeth Luck Hammond
Elizabeth Mathews Wallace
Theodora P. Maybank Williams
Elizabeth Miller Allan
Mar>' Montague Harrison
Elise Morley Fink
Anna Pattern Thrasher
Margaret Powell Oldham
Elva Quisenberry Marks
Julia Reynolds Driesbach
Helen Smyser Talbott
Jo Snowden Durham
Marjorie Stone Neighbors
Nar Warren Taylor
Martha Thomas Goward
Mary Elizabeth Turner Baker
Constance Van Ness
Julia Ventulett Patterson
Mary Kelly Vizard Kelly
Sara Von Schilling Stanley
Margaret Williams Bayne
Mildred Wilson Garnett
Virginia Wilson Robbins

1928— $451.00— 33%

Agent: Marion Jayne Berguido

Betty Austin Kinlock
Adaline R. Beeson
Eleanor Branch Cornell
Dorothy Bunting
Evelyn Claybrook Bowie
Louise Conklin Knowles
Elizabeth- Crane Hall
Sarah Dance Krook
Helen Davis Mcllrath
Harriet Dunlap Towill

Sarah Everett Toy
Elizabeth Failing Bernhard
Connie Furman Westbrook
Louise Harned Ross
Virginia Hippie Baugher
Marguerite Hodnctt McDaniel
Marion Jaync Berguido
Susan Jelley Dunbar
Helen E. Keys Rollow
Katherine Leadbeater Bloomer
Sara McHenry
Katheryn Meyer Manshel
Betty Moore Schilling
Mary Nelms Locke
Ann Lane Newell Whatley
Elizabeth Preacott Balch
Anne Beth Price Clark
Elizabeth Robins Foster
Anne Shepherd Lewis
Grace H. Sollitt
Grace Sunderland Owings
Virginia Torrance Zimmer
Virginia Van Winkle Morlidge
Jocelyn Watson Regen
Mary Alice Webb Nesbitt
Fanny Welch Paul
Winifred West Morriss
Lillian L. Wood
Betty Woodward Jeffers

1929— $714.62— 37%

Agent: Eugenia Tillman McKenzie

Nora Lee Antrim
Evelyn Ballard
Mary Archer Bean Eppes
Athlein Benton Lawton
Ellen Whiting Blake
Mallie Bomar Johnson
Dorothy Bortz Davis
Belle Brockenbrough Hutchins
Mildred Bronaugh Taylor
Janet Bruce Bailey
Elizabeth Bryan Stockton
Mildred Bushey Scherr
Sara CaUison Jamison
Virginia Lee Campbell Clinch
Virginia Chaffee Gwynn
Louise Chapman Plamp
Kate Tappen Coe
Mary Copeland Sturgeon
Louise Dailey Sturhahn
Meredith Ferguson Smythe
Ann Gleaves Drought
Emilie Giese Martin
Mary Goehnauer Dalton
Lisa Guigon Shinberger
Margaret Harding Kelly
Gary Harman Biggs
Elizabeth Hilton
Mary Hodges Edmunds
Virginia Hodgson Sutliff
Adaline Hoffman Allen
Amelia Hollis Scott
Claire Hoyt Gaver
Dorothy Jolh'ffe Urner
Martha Dabney Jones
Josephine Kluttz Ruffin
Elizabeth Lankford Miles
Elizabeth Lewis Reed
Mildred Earle Lewis Adkins
Polly MeDiarmid Serodino
Sally MeKee Stanger
Martha Maupin Stewart
Isabelle North Goodwin
Gertrude Prior
Frances Redford
Adelaide Richardson Hanger
Helen Schaurnlcff'el Ferree
Mary Shelton Clark
Eugenie Tillynan McKenzie
Anna Torian Owens
Sue Tucker Yates
Esther Tyler Campbell
Elizabeth Valentine Goodwyn
Helen Weitzman Bailey
Jane Wilkinson Banyard
Huldah Williams Lambert
Julia Wilson
Amelia Woodward Davier

1930— $762.26— 32%

Agent: Carolyn Martindale Blouin

Josephine Aberncthy Turrentine

Serena Ailes Henry

Elizabeth Boone Willis

Flora Broicn Elton

Mary Burks Saltz

Jane Callison Smith

Elizabeth Carnes

Elizabeth Copeland Norfleet

Merry Curtis Loving
Suzanne Doyle Dittman
Sophia Dunlap Hunter
Gratia Gcer Howe
Elizabeth Gorsline
Frances Harrison McGiffert
Ruth Haaaon Smith
Eleanor Henderaoyx Merry
Ruth Hendrix Causey
Mary Huntington Harrison
Evelyn Jackson Blackstock
Alice Jones Taylor
Martha Lainbvth Kilgore
Virginia LeHardy Bell
Mary Douglas Lyon Stedman
Elizabeth McCrady Bardwell
Eleanor Marshall Tucker
Elizabeth Marston Creech
Carolyn Martindale Blouin
Lucy Harrison Miller Baber
Mary Moss Powell
Meredith Oakford Johnson
Gwendolyn Olcott Writer
Alice Perkins Clayton
Lindsay Prentia Woodroofe
Wilbelmina Rankin Teter
Sally Reahard
Josephine Retd Stubbs
Emma Carrington Riely Lemaire
Norvell Royer Orgain
Elizabeth Saunders Ramsay
Jean Saunders
Lucy Sh irley Otis
Elizabeth Stevenson Tate
Mildred Stone Green
Marjorie Sturges